NOTE
IDAHO’S UNPROTECTED
In this week’s feature, “Crimes of Hate,” you’ll read
about Annie, a young woman who was beaten downtown
after leaving a popular watering hole. She believes she was
the victim of a hate crime, but in Idaho that’s a legal designation that does not exist for crimes like the one committed
against Annie.
Ask almost anyone in the LBGT community in Boise
about being harassed or beaten up for being gay, lesbian or
transgendered and just about everyone has a story. If they
haven’t been victims themselves, they can tell you the name
of someone who has. And, as Carissa Wolf reports in this
week’s issue, the vast majority of those crimes go unreported. The fact that Idaho statutes don’t do a great job protecting marginalized communities from a hate crime—or that
they’re not tougher on perpetrators of those crimes after
they happen—doesn’t surprise anyone who has urged their
lawmakers to add the words “gender identity” and “sexual
orientation” to the Idaho Human Rights Act.
It’s just one more way that lawmakers in Idaho continue
to piss on the minority, in spite of what a majority of citizens ask them to do. I urge you to read “Crimes of Hate”
and remember that the more we ignore these crimes, the
more they happen. And the more they happen, the longer
we continue to send a message to the LGBT community in
Idaho that they are second-class citizens.
As we go to press this week, we’re in the midst of Pride
Week. Support the LGBT community here in Boise by attending any of this week’s events, especially the parade on
Saturday, June 16. For a list of events, see Page 22.
On a far more frivolous note, this year, for the ﬁrst time
ever, readers are invited to vote for their favorite submissions to our annual Black and White Photo Contest. A panel
of judges will continue to select winners in each category, as
well as a grand prize winner. However, the public will also
have its say, thanks to this year’s online voting system. Voting is open until Sunday, June 17. Log on to boiseweekly.
com and look for the Black and White Photo logo on the
homepage or click on Promo in the navigation bar.
—Rachael Daigle

COVER ARTIST
ARTIST: Les Bock
TITLE: At Rest
MEDIUM: Soft pastel on paper
ARTIST STATEMENT: When we live
in the true present, we are at rest.
When we are at rest, we cannot see
beyond the horizon, nor do we even
care to know what lies beyond it.
At that moment, everything is one.

SUBMIT

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artists are eligible to apply. To submit your artwork for BW’s cover, bring
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your submission date, your work will be ready for pick up if it’s not chosen
to be featured on the cover. Work not picked up within six weeks of submission will be discarded.

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What you missed this week in the digital world.

INSIDE

GONE VIRAL
What did you miss at boiseweekly.
com? For starters, the mudslinger that
was Nickleback fans vs. BW New Media Czar
Josh Gross, who has received emails, tweets,
Facebook messages and online comments
from London to California falling into two
camps: either he deserves a Pulitzer for his 180-word concert
announcement or he’s an ass. Missed it? Scan the QR code to
read a selection of comments Gross received. Check out Mail
on Page 6 for a few posted at boiseweekly.com.

WITNESSES
In the June 6 Note, Editor Rachael Daigle wrote about
a lawsuit brought against the State of Idaho by 16 news
organizations, including Boise Weekly, to allow the media full
access to the inmate execution process. A judge ruled in favor
of the media June 8. Details at Citydesk.

GRASS WINS
The latest in the grass vs. Occupy has the grass
pulling ahead. The judge who ruled Occupy could remain
ordered Occupiers’ tents be removed so the state of the grass
can be assessed and maintenance done.

FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH
War Horse opened in Boise June 6
before its national tour. See a video interview with puppet designer Adrian Kohler.

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EDITOR’S NOTE
MAIL
BILL COPE
TED RALL
NEWS
Teaching the lessons
of the past
East end armory may
ﬁnally get an overhaul
CITIZEN
FEATURE
Crimes of Hate
BW PICKS
FIND
8 DAYS OUT
SUDOKU
NOISE
Navigating
Maps and Atlases
MUSIC GUIDE
ARTS
New artist in residence
program moves in to
Surel’s House
SCREEN
Hysteria
REC
Here bear, bear, bear
FOOD
How all that
produce gets to
the farmers market
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NYT CROSSWORD
FREEWILL ASTROLOGY

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MAIL
DEFENDERS NEEDED
Edward Abbey once
said, “The idea of wilderness needs no defense,
only defenders.” This rings
true more than ever as
the Republican-controlled
House recently passed the
Sportsmen’s Heritage Act,
H.R. 4089. The Senate
is prepared to vote on a
similar bill, S. 2066.
The Sportsmen’s
Heritage Act would gut
the Wilderness Act of
1964 and turn places like
the Selway-Bitterroot and
Frank Church wildernesses
into game farms for hunters, trappers, ﬁshermen and
motorized recreationists.
Disguised as wildlife conservation, the legislation
would permit public land
managers to build roads
and permanent structures
in wilderness to accommodate outﬁtters. It would
allow any motor-head in
the state to take a motorcycle or four-wheeler into
the wilderness, as long as
they have a ﬁshing rod or
riﬂe with them.
It gets better. The bill
would give managers the
green light to allow thinning and logging within
wilderness, all in the name
of improving elk habitat.
Helicopters would be
permitted to land in the
middle of wilderness so
that wildlife could be tranquilized and collared. Your
favorite ﬁshing hole could
be poisoned and exotic ﬁsh
planted to increase angling
opportunities. All management actions would be
exempt from the National
Environmental Policy Act,
meaning public input, appeals and litigation would
be stripped.
Please contact Sen. Jeff
Bingaman, chair, Senate
Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and tell
him this legislation must be
blocked. Don’t waste your
breath with Sens. Mike
Crapo and Jim Risch, they

are co-sponsors. Learn more
at wildernesswatch.org.
—Brett Haverstick,
Moscow

THE NICKLE-VERSEY
In the June 6 edition of
Boise Weekly, BW New
Media Czar Josh Gross offered a few alternative uses
for $45 than purchasing a
ticket to Nickleback, which
takes the stage at the Idaho
Center Wednesday, June 13.
Gross’ “Don’t Listen Here”
went viral and the following
are a few of the comments
left at boiseweekly.com.
Hmm ... no all you Josh
Gross haters, this is exactly
what journalism needs to
be like. When Clear Channel and Live Nation are
destroying the present and
future of music, it makes
journalism like this necessary. This is not the kind of
opinion writing that needs
to be relegated to Facebook
(although I’m sure it would
have become just as viral
there). ... This is the kind
of writing that speaks truth
to power: Nickleback is
hated because they are an
example of music being
shoved down people’s
throats.
—Ben Wigler
I would pay money to
watch Josh Gross slap the
face of the promoter that
brought in Nickleback. Oh
wait, they’re giving it away.
Speaking of which, didn’t
Nickleback make these
tickets a Groupon promotion yesterday? A little
more thinking and a little
less navel gazing might help
the “industry.” Booking
a cut-rate has-been band
in the sticks is the sign of
a band in decline, not of
good promotion.
—Sisyphus
I’ve been all over the
country, and I have never
seen a more hateful and
unsupportive music scene

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than Boise. There is more
shit-talking than actual
music. It’s people like Mr.
Gross here that keep big
acts from coming here.
—Doug Hoelbinger
This Josh Gross person is
a moron.
—Dookie Hoser
I need to ﬁnd this Josh
Gross and buy him a beer.
—Seamus Patrick Burke
This was unprofessional!
Shame on Josh Gross and
Boise Weekly.
—Jeff Wong
As someone who is a
concert promoter and musician, this article is a slap
in the face to those who
bring in shows. I am not a
fan of Nickleback’s at all,
but this type of journalism
makes it much harder to
bring in acts, big or small.
Word spreads quickly,
and promoters won’t take
chances if they think that
they will be treated like
this. Very, very unprofessional. Maybe Josh Gross
should get into the promo
business and risk his own
money.
—gernblanston
To the promoter: this
paper or any other has no
responsibility to endorse
your choices. He can offer
his opinion. His job does
not involve doing your
job. If elsewhere there is a
paper writing to support
these acts, then you have
no problem. If there is not,
then you probably will not
make that mistake again.
Books acts people will like
and you will make money.
That is the promo business.
—whl
Most juvenile article I’ve
seen written for BW. I’m so
tired of all the hate, not for
just Nickleback, in general
society. This may not make
sense now, but when you
grow up, you’ll understand;
people like stuff and things
that aren’t necessarily same
as the stuff and things you
like, it doesn’t make your
stuff better. Full disclosure:
I don’t care one way or the
other for their music.
—ReasonablePlea
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THREE WISE MEN
Adios Ray … Mel … Perry. Love you guys.
If you’re lucky, you will meet, spend time
with, learn from—maybe even become
friends with—rare individuals whose very
presence in your life makes up for a lot of
the general disappointment and drudgery
some of us come to expect from our fellow
homo sapiens. I have been so lucky. I have
met, spent time with and learned from—even
become friends with—people who have
made it a pleasure, even a blessing, to be part
of the same human race they belong to.
Last week came notice of the deaths of
three of those rare individuals. They died
within a day or two of one another. All of
them had their passing announced in the
same day’s paper. Two were local guys;
the third was famous around the world, I
imagine—even off-world—but he always felt
local to me.
I wish I could remember the ﬁrst story of
Ray Bradbury’s I ever read. I suspect it was
something from The Martian Chronicles.
Maybe Dandelion Wine or that short masterpiece of poignancy, “There Will Come Soft
Rains.” I grew up with a crush on science
ﬁction—read everyone from Isaac Asimov to
H.G. Wells, with 100 writers in between—
but it was Bradbury who put the soul in the
genre for me.
His delicate tales were spun with softtissue characters—vulnerable, poetic and
magical people—as central to the hardware
of robots and space travel and societies
where the aberrant has become the norm. No
matter what wicked thing this way comes,
which strange visitor arrived out of the
Martian night, who beat on the hidden door
of the secret library, it came through the eyes
of a young boy who could have been me, a
family which might have been mine, a world
not so far removed from the one I knew.
I wasn’t Bradbury’s friend, sadly. Never
met him. But I spent light-years lost in his
cosmos and have spent my entire writing
life trying to arrange my words as beautifully as he did his. When I heard he died last
week, I felt one of those inner, inexplicable
things which, all put together, make up what
we have become, wither and fall away into
the mists of nostalgia. Even the ancient and
noble ghosts of Mars took a moment to
mark his passing and shed a tear or two into
the martian sand, I’m sure of it.
U
My ﬁrst memory of Mel Shelton was
from a marching band competition in the
early ’60s. I was on the ﬁeld in Meridian
High School’s puny 28-piece band, stumbling through some sad-ass formation or
other, when we became conscious of Boise
High School’s 150-piece band lining up in
both end zones, getting ready to follow us.
As soon as we tottered off the ﬁeld, they
thundered on, playing the Boise ﬁght song,
with Mel standing on the 50 yard line like a
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That band of his was marvelous. So marvelous that, even now, 50 years later, the hair
stands up on my scalp and salutes whenever
I watch a great marching band take the ﬁeld.
In time, Mel left Boise High and directed
the band at Boise Junior College. He also
led the Treasure Valley Concert Band, which
continues on to this day. That’s where I met
him, playing in his community band during
summer concerts in the old band shell in
Julia Davis Park. His love of that music
showed in every ﬂourish of his talented baton, every grin on his warm face, every jiggle
of his jolly girth. If Boise ever had a Music
Man, it was Mel. And if the Heavenly Wind
Ensemble ever plays any Sousa or Holst, it
needs to make space for Mel on the podium.
U
Perry Swisher was so rooted in Idaho,
I imagined he smelled like sagebrush and
Bonneville County potatoes. Outside Bruneau, his grandfather bred the horses that
carried Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill. As a legislator, Perry led
the effort to get Idaho State Junior College
made a full-ﬂedged university. As a public
utilities commissioner, he fought to keep utility rates reasonable for Idaho families and
bring the latest technology to the state. As a
journalist, he dared to expose the hypocrisy
and corruption of Idaho’s power elite. And
as a friend, he could make you laugh with
every word that came from his agile mind
and laser-guided tongue.
I met Perry after the great body of his life
work had been accomplished. I learned only
later how essential a proponent he has been
over a 60-year span for education, communication and honesty in government. But as a
young person, just growing into my political
boots, I thrilled at his opinion pieces in the
old Intermountain Observer, Idaho’s ﬁrst
alternative press. In as staid a state as Idaho,
especially in the late ’60s, Perry’s voice was
sassy and bullshit-free. Then 30 years on, to
become a column-writing colleague of his
at Boise Weekly was like having a beer with
a childhood hero. And I was never disappointed. If anything, he had grown sassier
and more bullshit-free with age.
I had the opportunity a few years ago to
meet some of his lifelong friends. Every few
weeks, they would meet for breakfast, some
coming in from as far away as Pocatello.
This was aside from his regular klatch who
gathered every day at Moon’s Kitchen Cafe.
I made that scene only once—they met very
early in the morning, alas—but that once
was enough to see how fondly his co-conversationalists thought of him. If a person
can be judged on how greatly his friends will
miss him—and what better way to judge a
person?—Perry lived one of the most successful lives I’ve ever been witness to.
It will be damn hard to imagine Idaho
without him.
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WHAT RECOVERY?
Dull statistics tell a terrifying story

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
FOR THE F-35A TRAINING BASING
FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
STATEMENT
The United States Air Force (Air Force), in accordance
with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of
1969, as amended (42 United States Code 4321, et seq.),
the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions
of NEPA (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] parts
1500-1508), and Air Force policy and procedures (32 CFR
part 989), has prepared a Final Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS).
This EIS analyzes the potential
environmental consequences and mitigations associated
with the F-35A Training Basing for the following
potential beddown locations: Boise Air Terminal Airport
Air Guard Station, also known as Gowen Field, Idaho;
Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico; Luke Air Force
Base, Arizona; and Tucson International Airport Air
Guard Station, Arizona.
Potential environmental impacts were analyzed in the
Final EIS, including impacts associated with changes in
personnel, construction, and renovation of facilities, and
training activities in existing military airspace, auxiliary
airfields, and ranges to support the proposed basing of the
Pilot Training Center and training aircraft.

“Worst U.S. Jobs Data in a Year Signals Stalling Recovery,” The New York Times ran as its
lead headline on June 2. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. economy created
69,000 jobs during May. The three-month
job-creation average was 96,000. Unemployment ticked up a tenth of a point, from 8.1 to
8.2 percent.
Once again, the media is downplaying a
blockbuster story by dulling it down with a
pile of dry, impenetrable statistics.
Wonder why you can’t ﬁnd a job or get a
raise? The new jobs numbers are the key to
understanding how bad the economy is—and
why it’s not likely to get better anytime soon.
Q: If nearly 100,000 Americans per
month are ﬁnding jobs, why are securities
markets tumbling?
A: Because it’s actually a net jobs loss. The
U.S. population is growing, so the work force
is, too. We need 125,000 new jobs a month
just to keep up with population growth.
“In the last 22 months, businesses have
created more than 3 million jobs,” President
Barack Obama claimed in his January 2012
State of the Union speech. True or not, a more
straightforward claim would have been net
job creation: 350,000 jobs over 22 months, or
15,000 per month.
Q: If we’re losing jobs, why is the unemployment rate hovering?
A: Discouraged workers don’t count as
ofﬁcially unemployed. Neither do those
whose unemployment beneﬁts have run out.
Ditto for those who are underemployed. The
ofﬁcially unemployed are remaining more or
less steady. Since the number of long-term
unemployed is rising, however, the unofﬁ-

cially unemployed is growing fast.
To muddy things up further, the feds have
rejiggered the numbers to make it look like
there are fewer ofﬁcially unemployed than
there used to be. The respected blog Shadow
Government Statistics, which calculates unemployment using the way the Labor Department
did until the 1980s, says this Alternate Unemployment Rate is about 23 percent—about the
same as at the peak of the Great Depression.
Q: So what’s up?
A: The jobs ﬁgures reﬂect a big structural
problem in the U.S. economy. Real wages have
been steadily dropping since the 1970s. We’re
creating a permanent class of unemployed
and underemployed. Even if we got “up” to
125,000 new jobs a month, that would still
leave at least 8.1 million people who lost jobs
between 2007 and 2010 out of work.
Q: Anything else?
A: Yeah. Jobs don’t equal jobs. If
you replace a $70,000-a-year job with a
$60,000-a-year job, that’s a net decline in income. Politicians will claim that the old lost
jobs have been replaced with new ones, but
multiply that trend over millions of workers,
and you’ll see reduced consumer spending.
Among the still-employed, inﬂation-adjusted
wages are dropping.
Oh, and what about the debts people accrued while they were between jobs? Because
many employers refuse to hire jobseekers with
bad credit, the unemployed are punished for
being unemployed.
The economy is a whale of a problem.
But politicians of both parties—and the
media—are only paying it the thinnest of lip
service.

A copy of the Final EIS will be available beginning June 15,
2012 online at www.F-35ATrainingEIS.com. A paper copy
is also available at the following public libraries:
Boise Public Library, Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland
Road, Boise, ID 83705
Eastern Owyhee, County Library, 520 Boise Ave., Grand
View, ID 83624
Meridian Library, Main Branch, 1326 W. Cherry Lane,
Meridian, ID 83642
Mountain Home, Public Library, 790 N. 10th E., Mountain
Home, ID 83647
Lizard Butte Library, 111 S. 3rd Ave. W., Marsing, ID 83639
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the Final EIS. After the close of the waiting period the Air
Force will sign the Record of Decision explaining the Air
Force conclusion, the reason for the selection, and the
alternatives considered.
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PATR IC K S W EENEY

A LIVING
HISTORY
A scene from the documentary ﬁlm Tipping Point:
The Age of the Oil Sands.

MEGAWOES ON MEGALOADS
In the opening scenes of the documentary Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands,
a helicopter glides over Alberta’s Athabasca
River. Wending through a boreal forest the
size of Greece, the river and its attendant
countryside is as rugged and beautiful as
any in the world. Then, over a rise, gargantuan smokestacks suddenly spear the sky,
lording over a landscape that can only be
described as apocalyptic: the single largest
source of CO2 emissions in North America.
These are the oil sands, a geological formation in which vast quantities of bitumen
lie just below the earth’s crust—the largest
proven reserves of oil in the world.
More than 1,000 miles to the south,
cities like Moscow and Coeur d’Alene, along
the I-90 and U.S. 95 corridors, are front and
center in the development’s debate.
Massive coke drums must be shipped
overland from inland ports, and while the
so-called “megaloads,” which can weigh as
much as 600,000 pounds and span two
highway lanes in width, have been effectively halted on Idaho’s scenic Highway 12,
the new route takes them from the Port of
Pasco, across the Idaho Panhandle—either
from Spokane on I-90 or from Lewiston to
Moscow and Coeur d’Alene on U.S. 95—
and through northwest Montana to the
Canadian border.
While push-back on the Highway 12 route
pulled major media attention, the new alignment hasn’t yet stirred much controversy.
That’s something Helen Yost, of Moscowbased direct action group Wild Idaho Rising
Tide, would like to change.
“We’re concerned in Moscow because
we saw those loads wreak terrible havoc on
Highway 95,” she said. “We’re opposed to
the oil sands project as a whole, but we’re
aiming at the transportation route because
they’re using our roads.”
So far, though, Wild Idaho Rising Tide
hasn’t had the legal success enjoyed by
groups that opposed the US 12 shipments.
“Legally, I suspect there’s a lot of stuff
we could get them on but you’re just going
to lose because the judges are picked by
the Idaho Transportation Department,” she
said. “Nobody wants to ﬁght a battle they
know they’re going to lose.”
Of course, “nobody” doesn’t include
Yost, WIRT or their allies.
“They see us as saboteurs and eco-terrorists,” Yost laughed, adding that a request
for riot gear from the Moscow City Police
Department was recently approved by the
City Council. “It’s good that we’re a threat
to them, though I can’t imagine that we are.
People just need to keep pushing back.”
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Japanese-American
pilgrims planning rare
Boise visit
GEORGE PRENTICE
Idaho is in love with its white history. Schoolchildren are asked to embrace tales of explorers, homesteaders and even land barons. Yet
laborers, immigrants and the impoverished
are often swept aside, our instances of hatred
and ignorance rarely considered.
“The saying is absolutely true: Those who
fail to study history are condemned to repeat
it,” said Dr. Russ Tremayne, history professor
at the College of Southern Idaho. “I see so
Hanako Wakatsku (left), Wendy Janssen (center) and Carol Ash (right) helped craft the agenda for the
seventh annual Civil Liberties Symposium, held at Boise State.
many chances that we could possibly repeat
something that was beyond our imagination.”
Something, for instance, like locking up
Valley teachers as possible.
Hanako Wakatsuki. “I googled it when I got
citizens based on their national origin.
“We’re willing to scholarship any teacher
home and I was appalled, because I hadn’t
“It absolutely boggles my mind, the more
who is interested in coming to the June 21
learned anything about it.”
I think about it,” said Tremayne. “Putting
workshop,” said Tremayne. “That’s truly why
Today Wakatsuki is chairwoman of the
tens-of-thousands of Americans in prison
we decided to bring this to Boise.”
nonproﬁt Friends of Minidoka, advocates to
camps, without trial. A total miscarriage of
Wakatsuki conceded that the Treasure
preserve the legacy of Japanese-Americans
our Constitution.”
Valley has limited knowledge of or exposure
who were incarcerated at the Jerome County
Carol Ash, chief of interpretation from
to the Minidoka site but hopes that this year’s
camp during World War II.
the Minidoka National Historic Site, said the
symposium begins to change that.
“Between 10,000-13,000 Japanese
nation continues to come perilously close to
“I grew up in West Boise and went to
Americans were interned at the camp during
repeating its ugly past.
school in the Meridian district. I never heard
the Second World War,” said Wendy Janssen,
“Right after 9/11, we came so close to
about Minidoka until I went to college,” said
setting up camps for people of Arab descent,” superintendent of the Minidoka National
Historic Site. “At the time, it was the seventh- Wakatsuki. “I assumed it was some obscure
said Ash. “The ﬁght to maintain our liberties
thing in history. But this is the history of
largest city in Idaho.”
has never been more relevant to stress to our
Janssen said the camp tran- Idaho. We continue to glorify the Paciﬁc
young people that they need to
scends importance to Japanese- Northwest and the explorations, but we don’t
relate it to their own experifocus on the non-white cultures that helped to
Americans.
ences. It’s a constant struggle to
create this state.”
“This is our collective
deal with so many things: being
The seventh annual Civil
Tremayne said the emotional high point
Liberties Symposium will be
American history, not just a
a member of an ethnic group,
held Thursday, June 21, and
Japanese-American story,” she of the symposium will be a rare Treabeing poor, being gay, even beFriday, June 22, in the Stusure Valley visit from up to 200 so-called
said. “And with each of our
ing overweight.”
dent Union Building of Boise
“pilgrims,” Japanese-Americans, many in
symposiums, we broaden our
Tremayne called Ash a
State. More information at
their 80s or 90s, who lived in the Minidoka
lens. We must never let it hapcsi.edu/civilliberties
“master educator.” Lately she’s
symposium.
internment camp.
pen again, and we learn that
been busy crafting a unique
“Imagine meeting a 100-year-old woman
by focusing on the children in
teach-the-teacher workshop, as
who lived and gave birth to a child at Minithese experiences.”
part of the seventh annual Civil
doka,” said Tremayne. “In years past, we
In fact, “Through the Eyes
Liberties Symposium, slated
have had tears and emotions like you cannot
for Thursday, June 21, and Friday, June 22, at of Children” is the theme of the symposium,
believe. This year will be no different. The
examining the complexities of children livBoise State. Even though this will be the conpilgrimage is so vital.”
ing in Native American boarding schools,
ference’s ﬁrst visit to Boise State, it was the
Additionally, the symposium will include
university’s professor of history, emeritus, Dr. Hispanic labor camps and Japanese internment camps, all of which were part of Idaho’s lectures from Dr. David Adler, constitutional
Bob Sims, who dreamed of the symposium.
scholar and new director of the Andrus
checkered past.
“Bob is our godfather,” said Tremayne.
Center for Public Policy; Dr. Errol Jones,
“So many people in so many different
“He spent 40 years studying these issues,
who has spent the past six years examining
areas have had to struggle for the right to
and he helped design this conference, which
vote, for the right to sit anywhere in a theater, the migratory lives of Hispanics in labor
for the past six years has been at CSI in the
camps; and Ernest Green, a member of the
to not being sent to a relocation center at the
Magic Valley.”
ﬁrst sign of trouble,” said Ash. “It’s important famous “Little Rock Nine,” a group of
In fact, it was Sims who challenged a
black students who, in 1957, desegregated
that we help young people understand that
young student several years ago about her
knowledge of Idaho’s internment of Japanese- they have to be a part of that ongoing struggle an Arkansas high school.
“We have to begin looking at how
to maintain our liberties.”
Americans.
history affected children,” said Ash.
But before the message makes its way
“One day, Bob Sims asked me, ‘Do you
“That’s the group that will protect these
to Idaho school children, the symposium’s
know about Minidoka?’ I didn’t want to
founders will get in front of as many Treasure rights in the future.”
sound stupid, so I said, ‘Yeah,’” remembered
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ER IK K INGS TON

The Reserve Street Armory was built with funds from President Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration in 1937. Its design includes Art Deco details, according to the Boise Architecture Project.

EAST SIDE STORY
Boise neighbors have plenty of ideas for armory
ANDREW CRISP
After its completion in 1937, the Reserve
Street Armory has seen its fair share of
changes—an evolving neighborhood, Foothills
preservation, the expansion of St. Luke’s Boise
Medical Center—but also witnessed more
than seven decades of its own decline.
“It’s dilapidated,” said John Brunelle, Boise
Mayor Dave Bieter’s assistant for economic
development. “It’s deteriorating.”
But now plans to breathe new life into
the landmark’s stagnant air could come to
fruition, though the exact details of the plans
remain unclear.
“It’s a diamond in the rough, but it’s going
to require someone with vision and a huge
budget,” said Brunelle.
In his June 5 State of the City address,
Bieter announced plans (but few details) for
California investors J&M Land to redevelop
the armory.
“This is not a project for the faint of heart
or the light of wallet,” said Erik Kingston, a
neighborhood resident.
Kingston is a member of the Reserve Street
Armory subcommittee, part of the East End
Neighborhood Association, which worked
with city ofﬁcials to keep the armory from a
2008 public auction.
“We’ve had plenty of people interested
in the property,” said Brunelle. “But not so
much the building. It’s a good location, but the
building is a challenge.”
Brunelle said preserving the building’s
exterior walls, facade and unique bow-roof
structure have been a priority for neighbors
and city ofﬁcials for years.
“It’s probably a $2.5 million to $3 million
investment just to get it up to code,” he said.
“That’s not including tenant improvements.”
While ofﬁcials haven’t said anything about
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J&M’s intentions for the armory, neighbors in
the area have been talking a great deal.
“I think it’s lovely just the way it is,” said
Christine White, walking her dog past the
armory. However, she would like to see the
building brought back to life.
“I could see somebody with money doing
a nightclub,” she said. “And then during the
day, a children’s center with a big climbing
wall, and maybe with a Boise State research
facility in the remaining half.”
Off Logan Street at the rear of the armory,
Joy Wasson was also walking her dog.
“There are times when I’ve heard noises
in there,” said Wasson. “It’s a little spooky.
Sometimes I would see light shining out from
inside there or hear what sounded like people
inside.”
Wasson said the building bothered her
when she ﬁrst moved in, especially given the
overgrown trees and shrubs.
“But I’m a big supporter of restoring the
old buildings in town,” she said. “We’ve torn
down so many historic buildings. I’d really like
to see it become something for kids.”
Kingston pointed to sample drawings,
crafted by architect Steve Trout, of possibilities
for the armory.
“The North End has Hyde Park. To the
southeast, they have Bown Crossing,” said
Kingston. “This could be the Hyde Park of the
East End.”
Neighbors have suggested a beer garden
with a covered patio friendly to neighborhood
pets as an option.
“Wanting to do something with it is the
easy part,” said Brunelle. “Bringing that
together with a visionary that is well-ﬁnanced
is the trick, and I think we’re close to getting
that done.

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CITIZEN

JIMMY FARRIS
Football pales to the bloodsport of politics
GEORGE PRENTICE

If you weren’t running for Congress, what
would you be doing?
I was hosting a television program
called Sports Nite in Atlanta. I used to say
to myself, “I can’t believe people call this
work.” Ultimately, I wanted to do something
more meaningful.
What was the best part of playing professional football?
If football is what you love, it doesn’t get
any bigger or better than the NFL. For me, it
was the realization of a dream.
How violent is the sport?
Very violent but it varies from position to
position. I was lucky as a receiver. I didn’t take
many serious hits.
Do you look at a political campaign as
requiring conditioning?
One of the ﬁrst guys I met when I announced my candidacy was Boise Mayor

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Dave Bieter. He played football as a young
man, and he told me that his football background prepared him better than anything
he had ever done in life to be a candidate
and run for ofﬁce: commitment, discipline,
dedication and passion, on top of knowing
how to deal with success and failure. A lot
of people told me when I ﬁrst announced,
“You’re just a kid. You think you’re tough
enough for politics?” I thought, “Do you
know what I’ve been doing for the last 15
years?” One thing that won’t be an issue is
my toughness.
My guess is that you were not overly
thrilled with your results on primary night.
(Farris defeated Democratic challenger Cynthia
Clinkingbeard by 5 percentage points on May
15, despite her arrest for allegedly threatening
employees of a Boise store with a handgun.)
We made a conscious decision not to
campaign against Cynthia. Regardless of the
particulars, she had a right to a high degree of
privacy and for people to not ask her a lot of
questions about her situation.
But she ended up winning six counties in
western and northern Idaho.
I was known to hard-core political junkies, but people who weren’t engaged saw two
names on the primary ballot that they had
never heard of. We didn’t do a very good job
in reaching out to people who didn’t know
who I am.
But the most successful way to get your
name out will undoubtedly cost you quite a bit
of money.
I’ll be honest with you. I’m disappointed in
how important money is to this process. The
truth is, with the right amount of money, you
can get anybody elected.

JER EM Y LANNINGHAM

When Jimmy Farris was in ﬁfth grade his
teacher asked him to draw a picture of himself
in 15 years.
“I drew a stick ﬁgure of a man with a football,” he remembered. “I knew I would play in
the National Football League.”
He was right, though he is far from a stick
ﬁgure. Farris played for NFL teams in Atlanta,
Jacksonville, San Francisco and Washington,
D.C., and was part of the 2002 Super Bowl
champion New England Patriots.
Even though Farris didn’t picture himself
as a congressman when he was in elementary
school, he said it’s a natural progression from
professional sports to politics, and that’s why
he’s the Democratic challenger to incumbent
Republican Rep. Raul Labrador in Idaho’s
First Congressional District.

Where do you believe your opponent
is vulnerable?
Everyone knows that funding for education in Idaho is getting cut off at the knees. Yet
Congressman Labrador has twice supported
the so-called “Ryan budget,” which would
make drastic cuts to education. We can’t go
down that path. Regardless of what he says, he
has proven over and over again that he doesn’t
support public education.
A second issue is food insecurity. One in
four kids in Idaho public schools are getting
free or reduced lunches. One in ﬁve families
are in need of food assistance. But the Ryan
budget would make drastic cuts to food
stamps and the Women, Infants and Children
program. My opponent has made a decision
that he thinks those things aren’t important.
The top of the general election ballot will
feature a race for the White House. My sense
is that Congressman Labrador will link your
name to President Barack Obama.
I’m not running for president. I’m not
President Obama. My opponent keeps using
the word “liberal.” I’m not a liberal. I’m a
Democrat and there’s a difference.
How would you rate the ﬁrst three-and-ahalf years of the Obama administration?
You can say that we’re not where we
should be or you can say we’re going in the
right direction. I’m a positive, forward-thinking person.

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BY CARISSA WOLF

ords punctuated the kicks and punches.
“If you guys are going to dress like dudes, then we are
going to hit you like dudes,” Annie remembers hearing
between two rounds of assaults and a ﬁnal crash to the pavement
that shattered her knee.
Annie stood in the parking lot of Addie’s restaurant on Fifth
and Main streets with friends in the wee hours of a late April
morning when a kick to the back of the knee, followed by antigay slurs and punches ended her carefree night in downtown
Boise.
The attack put Annie in the hospital, and after two hours of
surgery that repaired her broken knee with a rod and nine screws,
she’s unable to walk. She’ll be in a wheelchair for at least two
more months. The attack left the young restaurant employee
unable to work. And without an income or health insurance, the
medical bills and living expenses are piling up.
Annie’s name, like others in this story, has been changed in
order to protect those who fear retribution or fallout.
“It’s sad. The whole thing makes me want to cry,” Annie said
in a telephone interview from her parent’s home, where she’s staying while she recovers.
Annie pressed battery charges against her attacker but he
quickly posted bond.
The assailant’s three friends that taunted Annie and encouraged the kicks and punches also walked away, and in the weeks
since the attack, Annie found there is little under Idaho law to
protect victims of anti-gay, hate-motivated crimes. Anti-gay
assaults are not covered under Idaho hate-crime statutes and
lawmakers have refused for six consecutive years to add sexual
orientation and gender identity to the state’s anti-discrimination
laws. That, LGBT advocates say, leaves many victims silent and
many crimes against sexual-orientation and gender-identity minorities unreported.
“If you do report, unfortunately, our state doesn’t think that
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the record. And once you go on the
record, you risk losing your job, your
housing and the public knowing something
about you that makes you a further target for discrimination. And in that realm, there is no protection,”
said Monica Hopkins, executive director of the American Civil
Liberties Union of Idaho.
In fall 2011, tweets and social media reports indicated a surge
in the number of hate crimes against LGBT people. Antidotal reports from LGBT community members echo an alarming increase
in the number of beatings, harassment cases and verbal assaults
against Boiseans based on presumptions about sexual orientation
and gender identity. But crime statics and police reports don’t
parallel what’s well known about the safety on the street.
“It happens all the time. It’s really frequent. And it’s very
frequent downtown, especially if people have been drinking,”
Annie said.
National reports and reality don’t match up either. In 2009,
the FBI reported 122,000 cases of anti-gay crime but most incidences go largely underreported, according to Bureau of Justice
statistics. The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates that the
actual rate is 15 times higher.
Mark can count four friends who have been victims of
anti-gay-motivated assaults in the past year. That’s 50 percent
more than the Boise Police Department logged in crime statistics
reports. Since 2002, Boise Police reported just 14 anti-gay hate
crimes. But sources interviewed by Boise Weekly say they collectively know of dozens of instances that occurred in the last couple
of years.
Mark knows why the numbers don’t match up.
He ﬁled a public records request last month. The documents
he unearthed came from a 20-year-old cold case. He didn’t look
at the entire contents of the report—he still couldn’t bear to see
the images of his 17-year-old self battered and bruised.
One police photo showed an all-American-looking kid dressed

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in a Meridian High School sweatshirt with the
word “Warrior” stretched across a large, blue
letter M. Mark’s face sported the sparse fuzz
of adolescence, an emerging black eye, a swollen cheek, numerous abrasions and bloodied
cuts. Photographs of his body revealed cuts,
bruises and abrasions on nearly every inch of
his back and down to his knees.
“It was humiliating enough to have to
take your clothes off and have someone take
pictures of you,” Mark said.
He didn’t want to report the attack that
happened near the Emerald Club, a now defunct gay bar. Mark was en route from Boise
State to his brother’s downtown apartment
when he passed the club. He was 17 and curious, so he wandered around outside the club
where he ran into two affable men, not much
older than he was. They struck up a conversation and Mark felt he was making friends
outside an establishment where a “GAY
FRIENDLY” sign hung.
Then the two men asked if Mark was gay.
Mark felt safe. He felt befriended.
“Yes,” Mark replied.
Then, Mark felt the pain of the ﬁrst punch.
“I was jumped and beaten and called,
‘Faggot! You’re going to die! You sick fucker!’
There were two of them and one of me. I
thought I was going to die,” Mark said.
Mark tried to conceal the attack the same
way he concealed his sexual orientation.
“My ﬁrst thought, was, ‘This didn’t happen.’ I didn’t know how I was going to explain
what happened. How was I going to explain I
was outside of a gay bar? People were going to
start to wonder.”
But the gashes and bruises were too many
and Mark’s parents called the cops.
Mark told police he didn’t remember what
happened on that day he’s tried to forget.
“I stayed quiet. I lied to police as a way
to protect myself. But I actually protected
the people who were attacking me. I gave
the police nothing to go on because I knew if
they were caught, they would say it happened
outside of a gay bar and that I told them I was
gay.”
Mark retreated and buried the story of
that sunny fall afternoon his senior year of
high school. Who would he tell? He didn’t
know anyone who was openly gay, and a
month after the attack, Meridian High School
suspended three popular teachers for inviting
lesbians to speak to a civics class.
“That pushed me even further into the
closet,” Mark said. “I survived the physical
attack but reporting what actually happened
to me would have just opened me up for more
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Mark held onto his silence because he
feared what would happen if people knew that
he was gay.
“People say that hate crime doesn’t happen.
I know it does happen. It happens in plain
sight and people don’t know because people
are afraid to speak up. And it’s that environment and that makes hate crime OK,” Mark
said.
There are many reasons not to report antigay hate crimes, said Randy Blazak, sociology
professor at Portland State University and
executive director of the Coalition Against
Hate Crime.
“Once you report being the victim of an
anti-gay attack, your sexuality is now a matter
of public record. And you may not have told
people in your family, let alone your community.”
Attacks against LGBT and immigrant
populations are among the most underreported hate crimes, Blazak said. And fear drives
the silence.
“In order for it to rise to the level of a hate
crime, you have to reveal things about the situation that make it a hate crime. Speciﬁcally,
it must be a crime motivated by bias against
a protected group—such as race, disability,
religion, sexual orientation or gender identity.
And in that becoming part of the public record, if you are—or are perceived to be gay or
transgendered—you risk discrimination in all
of the things that are not protected,” Hopkins
said.
Crimes motivated by sexual-orientation
and gender-identity bias are considered
criminal acts and protected under federal
hate-crimes laws but not by state laws. And
gender-identity and sexual-orientation discrimination, or acts and institutional practices
that maintain a majority group’s dominance
and treat people differently or unequal are not
protected by either state or federal law.
Some Idahoans tried to change that.
Pocatello Democrat Sen. Edgar Malepeai
sponsored a measure last legislative session
that would have added the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the Idaho
Civil Rights Act and Human Rights Act. The
measure was designed to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation or identity,
but after thousands rallied across the state in
support of the legislation, the Senate State Affairs Committee failed to print the routing slip,
effectively killing the bill. The vote fell strictly
along party lines.
“They put politics before people’s lives,”
Boise Democratic Sen. Nicole LeFavour said.
Passage of the bill would have offered
civil-rights protections to people who report
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hate crimes by making it illegal to ﬁre, evict
or discriminate against a person because he or
she outed their sexual orientation as part of
the police record. LGBT advocates say passage
of the legislation could have encouraged more
people to report anti-gay hate crimes.
“Legislators keep saying, “We’re not going
to do it. We’re not going to give it hearing.
We’re not even going to talk about this issue.
And that has actually raised the ability and the
entitlement for people to commit hate crimes
because what the state has actually said is, ‘We
don’t think they are equal to everyone else,’”
Hopkins said.
A lack of legal protection adds to the barriers that prevent reporting, Blazak said.
“The main reason that people don’t report
is they are afraid of the police. They are afraid
that the police share the same values as the
[assailants].”
Mary joined nearly 200 people at the R
Bar in May as they gathered to raise money
for Annie’s medical care and living expenses.
Their numbers stood in solidarity and in stark
contrast to the four men who assaulted Annie,
but for some, the event brought back personal
reminders of unspoken memories.
“This is personal for me,” Mary said. She
was attacked by four men in downtown Boise
nine years ago.
Her attackers saw a tall woman with what
Mary describes as Idaho aesthetic sensibilities—short hair (it’s an easy ’do for farm work,
Mary said) and practical, unisex clothing
(duds you can dirty up, Mary said). Between
the anti-gay slurs, attacks on her gender and
punches, Mary assumed her attacker felt she
was neither man enough nor woman enough
for their standards. But she could ﬁght like a
trained martial artist.
“I was able to get out of a scary situation.
But I wasn’t ﬁghting. I was surviving. And the
police were like, ‘Well, she looks more hurt
than you.’ The cops just said you guys go
this way and you guys go that way. I was just
trying to ﬁgure out what was happening. But
I knew it was hate. And I wasn’t getting any
help,” Mary said.
Mary said the police were more concerned
with who hit who rather that what was said.
Charges were never ﬁled.
“There’s a little bit of public-relations work
that police have to do to show they are protecting those populations,” Blazak said.
Things have changed since Mary’s attack,
Boise Police spokesperson Lynn Hightower
said.
“Police ofﬁcer training, as far as being
more sensitive to victims, is 180 degrees from
where it was 10 years ago, from where it was
20 years ago,” Hightower said.
Now victims of LGBT-based hate crimes
are offered enhanced protections by Boise
Police even though they are not covered under
state hate-crime statutes. If there is an indication that a crime was motivated by hate, a detective responds, along with a victim’s services
coordinator, who puts victims in touch with
community support services such as counseling and helps them navigate the legal system.
“There are a lot of categories of special
victims, children and battered women. But for
someone to be targeted because of their sexual
orientation, because of their race, because
of their religion—that can be an extremely
violating, emotional, traumatic thing to go
through,” Hightower said.
Last fall, social media reports about an
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escalation in crime directed toward LGBT and
talk in the community about unreported antigay hate crimes eventually made their way to
Boise Police, Hightower said.
LeFavour tweeted in October 2011 about
a “horrible rash of anti-gay hate crimes,”
and encouraged people to report what they
see. And after a number of brutal incidents in
the summer and fall of 2011—including one
reported assault of a tourist from Boston—
LGBT activist Duane Quintana called a meeting between law enforcement, LGBT members
and U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson to discuss
ways to curtail the violence.
The local buzz and concern prompted Boise
Police to issue a press release, Facebook posts
and ﬂiers encouraging people to speak up and
report the violence.
“We got several thank yous for the outreach, but the department did not get a single
report,” Hightower said.
But enhanced police response doesn’t always translate into a hate crime being charged
or reported.
“Establishing what is and isn’t a bias crime
by the police is a difﬁcult thing,” Blazak said.
“To ﬁgure out what the actual motivation is
requires an investigation. And sometimes, even
though it feels like a hate crime, sometimes
it’s not if there’s not a clear bias motivation.
There’s that legal side that the police are
sometimes asked to untangle. First of all, if
you don’t have a state law that doesn’t protect
that class then there’s no reason to ask those
questions.”
Idaho victims of hate-based crimes targeting sexual orientation and gender identity
can’t look to Idaho law for safeguard or
recourse, but federal civil-rights legislation
offers some protection. Still, Olson said not all
hate-motivated crimes would ﬁt under federal
hate-crime deﬁnitions.
“These are often random crimes of opportunity. So one of the problems is that often
the victims don’t know the perpetrators. So
victims can’t provide information about who
participated in the crime,” Olson said.
And that information is vital to not only
identifying an attacker but digging into the
circumstances of a crime. Federal law states
that hate crimes must be motivated by some
kind of bias. That bias may not always be
apparent during an attack and is sometimes
gleaned from background investigations into
an alleged assailant’s character and surface
through past statements that they made, organizations that they belonged to, or activities
they engaged in, Olson said.
Federal law also deﬁnes hate crime more
narrowly than many state laws. In order for a
hate crime to meet federal deﬁnition, it must
be commissioned in connection with interstate
commerce. In other words, the crime must
somehow cross state lines in order for federal
agents to have some jurisdiction, Olson said.
The use of a cellphone, the Internet, a weapon
that crossed borders or the interstate transport
of anything used in the commission of a crime
could help an offense meet federal guidelines.
A crime that disrupts interstate commerce or
economic activity could also fall under federal
hate-crime law.
Since sexual orientation and gender identity
were added to federal hate-crime laws under
the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. AntiHate Crime Prevention Act in 2009, three
Idaho cases have been reported to the Department of Justice. Two of those cases were

dropped and the third is under investigation.
The guidelines may not cover assaults such as
Annie’s, which is still under investigation, but
Olson said that shouldn’t discourage victims
from reporting crimes.
“If there is an assault, call us. Call the
FBI,” Olson said.
A lack of civil rights, absent protections
under state hate-crime laws and narrow federal deﬁnitions of hate crimes keep the DOJ
and FBI statistics on anti-gay hate crimes low.
But Blazak said the fuel behind the numbers—
what’s reported and not reported—is what
kept Mark silent for 20 years: fear.
“There is a reason we have hate-crime
laws on the state and federal level. And that’s
because hate crimes are a form of terrorism.
That sounds very dramatic, but the idea is
that hate crimes target more than the immediate victims of that crime. They target larger
communities,” Blazak said.
Terrorism. It’s a strong word, LeFavour
said. And it’s not one the wordsmith-turnedpolitician uses lightly, if at all in the context of
Idaho political debate for LGBT equality. The
term carries heavy emotion and the power to
polarize, she said.
“I really do think that it’s important to
call them message crimes,” she said. “[Hate
crimes] send a message to an entire community.”
But a line of sociologists and bloggers have
put semantics aside and drawn the connection
between gay bashing and waves of fear that
have rippled through entire communities.
“Hate crimes are meant to target large
groups of people and instill terror in them.
They are meant to send a wave of fear
throughout a community and a message
that ‘we don’t want you here.’ Whether it’s a
cross burning in a black family’s yard or gay
bashing, whether it’s deﬁned as a hate crime
in Idaho or not, the goal is the same—to negatively impact a large population,” Blazak said.
And there’s a cyclical fear behind hate
crimes.
“The thread that ties it all together—
whether it is neo-Nazis or anti-gay churches
or individuals who are engaged in acts of violence—is an ambivalence or fear of the rapid
pace of change in our society. Some people
embrace change as an opportunity and a good
thing, but there are others—mainly straight,
white males—who see change as undermining
their natural authority and, therefore, they
need to ﬁght back against it in any way, shape
or form. And some of this is through mainstream politics—the conservative, right wing
of our democratic system—but some of it is
through what we call hate crime,” he said.
That fear stems from what sociologists
call a backlash, or a negative response to
oppressed people gaining rights or power in
society. The Civil Rights Movement saw a
backlash against blacks through lynchings,
beatings and challenges to afﬁrmative action.
The Women’s Movement saw a backlash in
the form of legislation that aimed to curtail
reproductive freedom and from the likes of
Rush Limbaugh, who coined the term “feminazi” and, more recently, called a women’s
health advocate a “slut.”
“The term that we often use in sociology is
this idea of a zero-sum game. The idea that if
some group without power gains some power,
the perception among people with power is
that they are somehow losing power and,
therefore, they have to push back—they have

to push back against afﬁrmative action or they
have to push back against feminism or they
push back against gay rights,” Blazak said.
This backlash or plays of the zero-sum
game shape anti-gay hate-crime trends. When
the fear spikes, the backlash sets in, the zerosum game is played and people get hurt.
“Around political issues, we get trends.
For example, after 9/11, there was a big
increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes and
then it dropped considerably. But then when
[debate] about the mosque at Ground Zero
started up, we saw it all over again,” Blazak
said. “Around presidential elections, there’s
an increase because the gay civil-rights issue
gets used as a sort of political football, and
that agitates certain people and that increases
attacks on gays, lesbians and other sexual
minorities.”
Advocates say that countering the LGBT
backlash begins with adding protections to
state laws that would safeguard sexual-orientation and gender-identity minorities from
discrimination.
“It sends a strong message that violence
will not be tolerated,” said Chai Jindasurat of
the New York City Anti-Violence Project.
In Idaho, that would mean adding the
words to state statutes to protect Idahoans
from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. And those words
wouldn’t just protect minorities, advocates
say. Unlike race or ability, which sometimes
carry physical clues, sexual orientation must
be revealed. Anti-gay hate crimes are based
on presumption, making everyone a target,
advocates say. And laws that would protect
a gay teen from assault and discrimination
could also protect a straight man from the
same kinds of bias and attack.
“Civil rights protect everyone,” Hopkins
said.
Surveys show most people support LGBT
civil rights. A December 2011 survey commissioned by ACLU of Idaho and conducted
by noted Republican pollster Moore Information found that 78 percent of Idahoans found
anti-discrimination legal protection for LGBT
acceptable. And a May Gallup poll found that
support for gay marriage surpassed the opposition with half of all Americans backing the
words, “I do,” regardless of sexual orientation
or gender identity. And LeFavour said many
lawmakers were ready to add the words.
“The majority of lawmakers this session
knew that ‘Adding the Words’ was the right
thing to do. I think that we reached a critical
mass. It’s just that politics made it very intimating for some to take on an issue they don’t
feel comfortable talking about,” she said.
Adding the words “sexual orientation”
and “gender identity” would change lives,
LGBT advocates say.
Hopkins notes that statutes could even
change statistics. After the passage of the Civil
Rights Acts of 1964, the FBI and DOJ began
reporting a slow overall decline of race-motivated crime directed at blacks.
Lisa Perry with Add the Words said Idahoans will keep the campaign alive until the
message sticks. She said that as long as one
group isn’t safeguarded from hate crimes and
discrimination, we’re all vulnerable.
“If we as a society turn a blind eye to a
form of discrimination, it makes it easier for
other groups to experience discrimination
long as all unique individuals aren’t safeguarded.”
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SATURDAY-SUNDAY
JUNE 16-17
Poster Party 2012 will be pretty as a picture.

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THURSDAY
JUNE 14
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POSTER PARTY 2012
After selling hundreds of posters in 2011, the Poster Party is back to sling more work from
local artists. This year marks the return of the event blending art, charity, bikes and community into a potent cocktail of culture, which beneﬁted the Boise Bicycle Project last year.
“Last year, they raised over $3,000 for our Biking to Buy the Building campaign,” said
BBP’s Jimmy Hallyburton. “It was tremendously successful, and it seems like this year, I imagine it will do just as well.”
Co-organizer Sarah Lunstrum said this year’s iteration will beneﬁt the Treasure Valley YMCA
and its healthy living programs.
The poster party asks more than 30 local artists to submit original work, which is then
printed on posters available for $30 to beneﬁt a local nonproﬁt. Eager art fans will then
descend on the I LOVE YOU/Oliver Russell building downtown, where artists will peddle their
wares amid drinks, food and entertainment.
The event is also a major part of BBP’s annual Pedal for the People two-wheeled festival.
“We were the biggest-attended event last year,” said Lunstrum. “I think we identiﬁed 300 or
400 visitors last year.”
Archie’s Place food truck will be parked adjacent to the party and feature a special Poster
Party concoction from Jason Farber. Drinks from Payette Brewing will be available and the Vinyl
Preservation Society will spin tunes while Ben and Jerry’s will be available for dessert.
Hallyburton encouraged getting there early—the most popular posters sold out quickly last
year. However, with artists like Noble Hardesty, Julia Green, Jennifer Hallyburton and dozens
more, there’s not a bad piece in the bunch.
6-10 p.m., FREE, Oliver Russell/I LOVE YOU building, 217 S. 11th St., Boise.

we are Idaho.”
Keith Phillips, executive
director of Boise Pride, put it
like this: “We aren’t different
people in the midst of everyone else. We’re born and
raised here in Idaho. We are
just as Idahoan as anyone
else is.”
The Pride celebration
this year includes a singing
competition called Boise

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Voice Xtravaganza, taking
place Thursday, June 14, at
Humpin’ Hannah’s. It is the
rebranding of past years’
event Queer Idol.
Registration to sing in
the competition begins at
7:30 p.m. and costs $10.
The show begins at 8 p.m.
General admission costs
$5, with a $20 VIP option
available. The ﬁnalists of

Ever get that itch to lock up your best mate in a stockade and mercilessly catapult water at
him or her in front of a large group of people? At Ye Olde Renaissance Faire, you can do just
that, all while helping a great cause.
The fourth-annual Ye Olde Renaissance Faire, presented by the Encore Theatre, will feature
more than 200 performers at Eagle Island State Park Saturday, June 16, and Sunday, June
17. This free, family friendly event will take attendees back to the time of royal courts, pirates,
gypsies and jousting.
Between four performance areas, local and out-of-state performers will wow the crowds
with their Celtic dance, harp and cello playing, sword ﬁghting, ﬁre juggling and jousting skills.
Bringing this already color ful event further to life, actors will also per form skits in
the crowd. It is even rumored that pirates will interrupt an on-site wedding to take the
bride hostage.
Kids can enjoy storytime with the queen, face painting, a maypole and archery. Those who
want to learn a new skill or get competitive can take part in foam-weapon ﬁghting, belly dancing and juggling workshops or archery and castle-building contests.
Food vendors will dish up smoked turkey legs ﬁt for a king and merchants will sell everything from beads and tiaras to wood crafts and herbal remedies.
But the faire is more than a fun blast from the past: 100 percent of the proﬁts go to assisting Treasure Valley families with adoptions.
“It is just amazing how the community and beyond have really jumped in to be a part of the
fair, help us with the cause and give every child a chance at a happily ever after,” said event
director Jacki Briggs.
10 a.m.-6 p.m., FREE, $5 parking. Eagle Island State Park, 2691 Mace Road, Eagle, yeolderenaissancefaire.org.

this year’s Voice Xtravaganza
will perform on the main
stage at the Pride Festival
Saturday, June 16, in Ann
Morrison Park.
Phillips said the energy
and enthusiasm for this
year’s Pride events has increased thanks to President
Barack Obama’s declaration supporting same-sex
marriage and the end of the
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.
“As our issues have
gone more mainstream ...
people realize this doesn’t
just happen in New York
or San Francisco, but

ever ywhere and that there’s
thousands of members in
the [LGBT] community right
here in the Treasure Valley,”
Phillips said.
Phillips also hopes to
gain funding from local companies rather than relying
entirely on national organizations and advocacy groups.
With more funding, he said,
Boise Pride could focus on
being active in other ways
beyond holding the festival
every June. See a listing of
events on Page 22.
Various times and locations, boisepride.org.

SUNDAY
JUNE 17
hopalong
HIPPITY-HOP RACE
Plopping one’s rear down
on a big rubber ball sounds
like a Suzanne Somersendorsed ﬁtness shtick. But
countless youth and adults
have revelled in doing just
that—haphazardly bouncing
along on Hippity-Hops.
In that spirit, Boise Hippity-Hop fans Eric Stevens and
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Check out the greenery with wine in hand at Uncorked in the Garden.

STAKE BARBECUE TOOL
Boise’s boys of summer are sure to score.

TUESDAY
JUNE 19
poppin’ bottles
UNCORKED IN THE GARDEN
Music and wine is a match so divine that the two are paired
on the regular. Including at Idaho Botanical Garden’s Uncorked
in the Garden series, which offers monthly escapes from the
stress of everyday life. On Tuesday, June 19, IBG guests can
casually amble through the beautiful green garden setting with
a soundtrack of gentle live music—and a little booze.
The guest winer y for the season’s ﬁrst installment of
Uncorked is the family owned and operated Indian Creek
Winer y. Food and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided by
Prepared Chef.
Uncorked will feature a rotating lineup of wineries and
bands and will be held in a different garden location.
Playing at the event will be Hollow Wood, described as
“music that makes you wanna live in a simpler time.” The
band came together in 2010 and features three-part harmony
accompanied by the soothing sounds of guitar with upbeat
additions from toy pianos, banjos and harmonica. By the end
of the show, guests may wonder, “Is the wine making me feel
warm and comfortable, or is it the music?”
6-8:30 p.m., $3-$5, FREE for members and children ages
5 and younger. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary
Road, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Mark Hutchinson organize
annual Hippity-Hop races on
Father’s Day, Sunday, June
17, in Julia Davis Park.
“Ashrita Furman started
with setting the World
Record on the Great Wall of
China,” said Stevens. “We
broke that record, then he
re-broke our record, then in
2011 we destroyed his.”
The ball-bound sport has
become a legitimate athletic
pursuit, one that’s a great
workout for the abdomen
and back, according to
Stevens. As a transit option,
a Hippity-Hop ain’t the quickest means of travel. But
if it’s meandering fun you
seek, the Julia Davis party

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will have you hopped up
with excitement. This year’s
event features kids’ events,
a relay and one- and ﬁve-mile
races, so all skill levels can
partake in the fun.
“It’s fun and it’s original,”
said Stevens. “We just come
up with weird things to do.
We have a guy considering
doing a half marathon on a
Hippity-Hop.”
Children’s games are
free, entrance fees for
adults are $20 if you have
your own Hippity-Hop. For an
extra $15, you can buy one
on the day of the race. The
person taking home the fastest ﬁve-mile time will claim
the $500 prize, and the rest

WEDNESDAY
JUNE 20
home run
BOISE HAWKS OPENING NIGHT
Some insist that summer begins on Memorial Day or the
last day of school. To that, we say, “pshaw.” The real start
of the season doesn’t take place until the Boise Hawks take
the ﬁeld at Memorial Stadium, which will happen this year on
the evening of Wednesday, June 20.
The boys of summer actually begin their 2012 season on
the road, playing ﬁve away games beginning Friday, June 15,
against the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. But the Hawks settle
into their Garden City nest June 20, beginning a ﬁve-day
home stretch against the Eugene Emeralds.
Wednesdays are pretty special at Memorial Stadium.
Not including opening night, hump-days will feature the best
sports bargain in town.
“A family of four can sit in the ﬁrst-base section on
Wednesday nights for $4,” said Hawks General Manager
Todd Rahr. “Plus, you can get four hot dogs for an additional
$4, four sodas for $4 and four popcorns for $4. We’ll even
give you a free program and, of course, parking is free.”
Rahr said his $16 all-in package deal on Wednesdays
“might be the best-kept secret in town.”
“There’s still people out there who say, ‘You’re kidding
me,’ but we’ve kept it going since 2008,” he said.
Rahr was still waiting to see the 2012 roster, which will
be sent from the parent Chicago Cubs.
“But there’s a pretty good bet that we’ll see [shortstop]
Javier Baez this summer,” said Rahr. “He was the No. 1
draft pick from last year. The guy can ﬂat-out play.”
7:15 p.m., $7-$12. Hawk’s Memorial Stadium, 5600
Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-322-5000, milb.com.

of proceeds will beneﬁt a
local charity.
Stevens cautions that
form is key when on a
Hippity-Hop. He suggests
pulling up on the ball’s
handle while hopping “like a
bunny” to achieve maximum
speed. But he stresses that
participants need not be
world-class athletes.

Superﬂuous kitchen gadgetry has moved well beyond
the garlic peeler and the Slap Chop. Now, instead of using
a knife and spoon to scrape out the innards of an avocado,
you can use the Flexicado. Or instead of cracking an egg
on, oh, any surface, you can insert it into the EZcracker
Handheld Egg Cracker. Or instead of using the already unnecessary pizza wheel, you can
slice through crusts with pizza
scissors, which incorporate a
quirky.com
side serving spatula.
But all of these kitchen
contraptions will only add more clutter to your already-overﬂowing drawers. The Stake promises to help pare down the
toolsanity. According to its website:
“Stake is an all-in-one BBQ tool which transforms from
spatula to fork to tongs. Now you can ﬂip burgers, grip
chicken legs and spike hot dogs without breaking a sweat.”
Features include a smooth leaf-spring mechanism that
makes tongs easy to use, fork that slides out for use and
tucks safely into spatula for storage, and handles that can
be locked together or opened with one quick motion.
This brushed stainless steel tool would make a great gift
for dad (Father’s Day is Sunday, June 17) or your resident
grill guru.
—Tara Morgan

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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 13
Festivals & Events
PEDAL 4 THE
PEOPLE—There’s plenty
of bicycle-themed fun to
be had at this interactive
festival. Attend a scheduled
event or add your own to the
community calendar. Visit
boisebicycleproject.org for a full
list of events.

LIVING WITH CANNIBALS—
Author Blake Everson will share
photographs and anecdotes from
his time with the Kosua Tribe of
Mt. Bosavi in the rainforest of
Papua New Guinea. Rediscover
what being human means in
this increasingly industrialized
world. 6 p.m. FREE. The Community Library, 415 Spruce Ave.
N., Ketchum, 208-726-3493,
thecommunitylibrary.org.
SEVEN DEVILS PLAYWRIGHTS
CONFERENCE—Playwrights,
actors and directors from around
the country will travel to McCall
and develop 10 new plays
working with local artists and
students. All events are open to
the public, but no reservations
will be taken. A full schedule
can be found online at idtheater.
org. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Alpine
Playhouse, 1201 Roosevelt Ave.,
McCall.
Catch the ﬁlm In the Family as part of Boise Pride 2012.

Sports & Fitness
BLOOD DRIVE FOR CHICKENS—Have a slice of pizza, get
a T-shirt, enter drawings for a
dream vacation or airline/hotel
gift card and get over your fear
of donating blood. Noon-6 p.m.
277 Milwaukee St. between Red
Robin and Ross.
FASCIA AND FASCIAL FITNESS—What is fascia? How can
it inﬂuence sports performance,
injury rehab and general ﬁtness?
Learn about the latest research
and hear real-life examples of
how to beneﬁt from it. 6:30 p.m.
FREE. Therapeutic Associates
Physical Therapy Parkcenter, 390
E. Parkcenter Blvd., Ste. 130,
Boise, 208-433-9211.

WEDNESDAY: JUNE 13
MOVIE NIGHT—Writer-director-star Patrick Wang will attend this screening of his ﬁlm In The Family, which chronicles the efforts of Joey (Wang)
to retain custody of 6-year-old Chip (Sebastian Brodziak) after the
boy’s father (Joey’s romantic partner) is killed in a car accident. As homophobia rears its ugly head in ways both subtle and brutal, Joey ﬁghts
the efforts of family members to take away his son. (NR) 7 p.m. $9,
$7 students and seniors. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-342-4222,
theﬂicksboise.com.

to build awareness about the vital importance of
teaching children to swim and to prevent drowning.
For more info, call FLOW Aquatics at 208-855-2212.
9 a.m. FREE. Idaho Athletic Club Eagle, 950 E.
Riverside Drive, Eagle, 208-938-8410.

Art
POSTER PARTY 2012—The second Poster
Party promotes local arts and bicycling,
offering affordable limited-edition bicycle
posters created especially for this event by a roster
of top local artists. Entertainment will be provided
by Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho, performance
art by Sector Seventeen and food and drink from
Payette Brewing, Archie’s Place food truck and Ben
and Jerry’s. Proceeds beneﬁt the Treasure Valley
YMCA. See Picks, Page 20. 6-10 p.m. FREE. Oliver
Russell and Associates, 217 S. 11th St., Boise,
208-344-1734, oliverrussell.com.

Sports & Fitness
STATIC POLE DANCING TECHNIQUE—Learn how to
properly spin and utilize the strengths of static pole,
as well as learn spins that can only be done on a
static pole. For all levels. 8-9:30 p.m. $20. Ophidia
Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd., Ste. A, Garden City,
208-409-2403, ophidiastudio.com.
WORLD’S LARGEST SWIMMING LESSON—Thousands of kids and adults at aquatics facilities
around the globe will unite to set a new global
record for the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson

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Food & Drink

WEEK IN REVIEW
TAB ITHA B OW ER

FATHER’S DAY EVENT—The
Cake Ballers and Crooked Fence
Brewing Co. have teamed up to
create a beer cake ball sampler,
featuring a variety of Crooked
Fence beers baked into cakes.
Eye Candy Event Design will also
be on hand and have various
treats for sale. Everyone who
purchases a cake ball sampler
and a beer at the event will
receive a second beer for free.
6-9 p.m. Crooked Fence Brewing,
5242 Chinden Blvd., Garden City,
208-901-2090, 208-890-4120,
cfbrewing.blogspot.com.

Odds & Ends
SINGIN’ IN THE SLAMMER—
Join the fun-ﬁlled evening of karaoke, beer from Crooked Fence
Brewing Company and food by
Rio Grande and Free Range
Pizza. Adults 18 and older (ID required). Registration required for
karaoke competition. Call 208334-2844 for more information.
Sponsored by the Friends of the
Historical Museum and Foundation for Idaho History. 6-10 p.m.
$8. Old Idaho State Penitentiary,
2445 Old Penitentiary Road,
Boise, 208-368-6080, history.
idaho.gov/oldpen.html.

Visual space explorer Cassandra Schifﬂer launched a new exhibit at her
8th Street Marketplace AIR studio First Thursday.

SWINGING FROM THE RAFTERS
Despite the week’s wacky Ironman-wrecking weather, summer was in full swing in Boise. On June 6, The Grove hosted
the unofﬁcial kick-off of the fountain-splashing, beer-swilling
season with Alive After Five. Singer-songwriter Maia Sharp
and recent high school grads Workin’ on Fire launched the
weekly series. According to Boise Weekly intern Tabitha Bower,
“Sharp showed off her multi-instrumental talents by switching
between the guitar, keyboard and saxophone throughout her
performance.”
First Thursday also ushered in the sunny season, as art
appreciators bounced between the Ming Studios block party,
the 8th Street Marketplace Artist In Residence studios, Art For
Animals at Gallery 601, Jackie Hurlbert’s exhibit at Basement
Gallery and Shasta Nash’s show at Salon 162. For a photo
slideshow of all the action, visit boiseweekly.com.
While some were scoping out bright paintings in well-lit galleries, others were packed into the dark Knitting Factory to see
Provo, Utah’s illuminating Neon Trees. According to BW intern
Amy Merrill, “Playing a mix of old and new, Neon Trees kept
the packed house begging for more. Lead vocalist Tyler Glenn
surprised many when he climbed the frame supporting the
stage lights and hung over the ﬂoor in pink skinny jeans and a
white tank.”
Apparently, hanging from the rafters was a theme last weekend. At a farewell show for Boise’s Bone Dance, which recently
embarked on a Midwestern tour, frontman Morgan Mechling
dangled from the ceiling of Red Room. According to BW Staff
Writer Andrew Crisp, “Mechling waded through the crowd to
stand on tables, knock beers into the air and scream into audience member’s faces. He was rewarded with ﬂailing arms and
bodies as the audience worked itself into a frenzy, bouncing off
all corners between stage and bar.”
In less-raucous news, United Vision for Idaho hosted its
second-annual Community Progressive event in the soggy
Julia Davis Park June 9. According to Bower, “a handful of
people braved the rain and below-average temperatures in the
beginning of the day to dance along with the upbeat music
of Marimba Boise.” When the clouds parted mid-afternoon,
attendees wandered between booths on Nonproﬁt Row and the
Foodlandia food court.
And closing out the weekend, BW intern Jessica Murri
checked out the 16 top i48 ﬁlms at the Egyptian Theatre June
10. According to Murri, “The ﬁlms were all over the place, from
a National Geographic mockumentary on dating to a horror ﬁlm
based on the recent face-eating naked guy in Florida, ending
with a kitten on a journey to Flying Pie Pizzaria.”
This year, Boise Weekly’s Best Use of Boise award went to
Broken Film Work’s The Troubled Man. The Novice Best Film
award of the evening went to Blind Filmmakers’ Infection and
Best Film in the open division went to Blame Lana!’s Slice of
Life.
—Tara Morgan
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Concerts
HIGH STREET AT THE CONCERTS ON BROADWAY—High
Street kicks off the FREE summer Concerts on Broadway series with an explosion of sound
and color. Take your family, lawn
chairs and a picnic and settle in
for an evening of music under
the summer skies at the City
Hall amphitheater. Presented
by Union Paciﬁc. 7 p.m. FREE.
Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Idaho
St., Meridian.

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Art

BUILD A BASKET—Baskets
will be available for sale and
you choose from local vendors’
freshly made products such as
wine, cheese, bread, meat, fruits
and veggies, jams, hummus,
salsa, guacamole, pastries and
more. Noon-5 p.m. FREE. Bitner
Vineyards, 16645 Plum Road,
Caldwell, 208-899-7648, bitnervineyards.com.

CHILDREN’S ART EDUCATION
ONE-DAY PROJECT—Children
will be encouraged to use their
imaginations while working with
various media and techniques.
Dress for fun and a mess.
All classes will be held at the
Nampa Rec Center. Age groups
are as follows: Toddlers Too!
(ages 20 months to 3 years) 1010:45 a.m.; Art Explorers (ages
4-6) 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.;
Junior Artists (ages 7-12) 1-2:15
p.m. 10 a.m.-2:15 p.m. $12$17. Nampa Recreation Center,
131 Constitution Way, Nampa,
208-468-5858, nampaparksandrecreation.org.

OINKARI CIDER HOUSE DINNER—Cider houses, known
in the Basque language as
sagardotegiak, are similar to
wineries, only the end product
is apple wine (sagardoa). Found
throughout the Basque Country,
they are popular gathering places
for an evening of fun. This dinner
will feature steak, cod, bread,
cheese, walnuts and plenty of
cider, as well as music, rafﬂes
and live and silent auctions.
Proceeds beneﬁt the Boise State
Basque program and the Oinkari
Dancers. RSVP to Lael Uberuaga
at lael@oinkari.org, or call 208557-1960. 5:30 p.m. $50, $90
for two. Basque Center, 601 W.
Grove St., Boise, 208-331-5097
or 208-342-9983, basquecenter.
com.

ROMANCE OF ROSES—Learn
about the garden’s heirloom
rose varieties and how their
individual traits can work in any
garden. The history of speciﬁc
roses and historical uses of
roses will also be discussed.
10 a.m. $10 IBG member, $15
nonmember. Idaho Botanical
Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary
Road, Boise, 208-343-8649,
idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Workshops & Classes

Farmers Markets

CONCRETE LEAF WORKSHOP,
PART I—Create a garden ornament using concrete and a large
leaf. This two-part workshop
includes all materials to make
a concrete leaf to be used as
a small birdbath or garden
decoration. The second installment of the class will be held
Wednesday, June 20, at 6 p.m.
9 a.m. $20 IBG members, $25
nonmembers. Idaho Botanical
Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary
Road, Boise, 208-343-8649,
idahobotanicalgarden.org.

EATING FOR ENERGY—Want to
learn to increase your energy?
This class will teach you how
to make the food and lifestyle
choices that will allow you to live
the energized life you’ve been
dreaming of. Sample high-energy
snacks and watch a smoothie
demo. 3 p.m. FREE. My Fit Foods
Meridian, 3323 E. Louise Drive,
southeast corner of Eagle and
Franklin roads in The Portico,
Meridian, 208-995-2832.

Food & Drink
THIRD-ANNUAL MAN
BRUNCH—The third-annual Father’s Day Man Brunch beneﬁts
the Women’s and Children’s
Alliance. Valet parking, live music
from Shaun B and all of Chandlers’ brunch favorites are on
the menu. This is an event Dad
and the whole family will enjoy.
Tickets are available at the WCA
online store. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $15
children, $35 adults. Chandlers
Steakhouse, 981 W. Grove St.,
Boise, 208-383-4300, chandlersboise.com.

Murder is ever so taxing for the mysterious Christopher Wren (played by
Ryan David O’Byrne) in Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s The Mousetrap.

THE MOUSETRAP
For something to become a cliche—before it gets replayed,
tweaked and spun off—it has to start somewhere, a point
when it’s a groundbreaking idea that sets the template.
It’s rare that we get to go back and examine the origins of
such an idea, but that’s exactly the chance Idaho Shakespeare
Festival is offering audiences with its latest production, The
Mousetrap by Agatha Christie.
And popular is an understatement when it comes to this
play—it has been running for 60 years in London. In honor of
the anniversary, 60 theater companies around the world were
granted permission to stage their own productions this year.
In true who-done-it form, The Mousetrap pulls audiences
through a maze of hidden motivations, secret identities, red
herrings and, of course, murder in grand fashion, keeping
everyone guessing the killer’s identity up until the big reveal.
The ISF production is a new take on the classic, giving it an
edgier interpretation. Plot points are introduced by characters
using old-fashioned microphones onstage—a nod to the radio
play that was the origin for the theatrical production—and the
dialogue of the ﬁnal scene is a recording played as the actors
go through the motions. The effect highlights the contrast
between the devastating effects
such an event would have and
the light wrap-up of the script.
THE MOUSETRAP
Continues through Friday,
Director Drew Barr plays
July 27. For tickets and info,
up moments of levity made
visit idahoshakespeare.org.
possible by the sometimes antiquated language (haughty vs.
hottie, for example) and eclectic
cast of characters. While fun, it sometimes breaks the building
tension necessary in a mystery.
The set somehow combines period 1950s while radiating a
steampunk, industrial vibe. A single central set piece serves
as the entrance, and its Tim Burton-esqe angled door, black
color palette and walls covered with radios set the tone.
The cast of eight rarely leave the stage, instead using the
background to serve almost as a police lineup for the audience
to continually review the suspects.
The cast is a nice mix of familiar faces (Lynn Allison, Sara
M. Bruner, Jodi Dominick) and new players (Paul Hurley, Dan
Lawrence, Ryan David O’Byrne), and all found their rhythm.
Unfortunately, there are some moments of what should be
quick, tension-ﬁlled dialogue that are instead peppered with
overly long pauses. Additionally, the choice of leading into intermission with a modern song rather than a period one is jarring
and messes with the continuity.
Still, the play is undeniably fun and audiences are pulled
into the guessing game with such ease that they don’t realize
how involved they are. For those who love a good mystery, you
can’t go wrong with Christie, and the ISF production does a
great job of honoring the master.
—Deanna Darr
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Food & Drink
TUESDAY NIGHT BEER AND
WINE TASTINGS—Enjoy appetizers and selections from a different Idaho brewer or winemaker
every week. 6 p.m. $5. Salt
Tears Coffeehouse & Noshery,
4714 W. State St., Boise, 208275-0017, salttears.com.
UNCORKED IN THE
GARDEN—Indian Creek
Winery will provide the
wine while you wander the lush
landscape of the Idaho Botanical
Garden. Music will be provided
by Hollow Wood and food will be
available for purchase by
Prepared Chef. See Picks, Page
21. 6-8 p.m. FREE for IBG
members, $5 nonmembers.
Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N.
Penitentiary Road, Boise,
208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Art
NEW MOON SALON—Enjoy an
evening of music and art featuring artist Olive Wicherski’s new
drawings and Rachel Teannalach’s series of landscape paintings Boise from Above. Brittany
McConnell of Wolvserpent will
play the violin. 7-9 p.m. Rachel
Teannalach Studio, 2610 Regan
Ave., Boise, 415-497-8158,
teannalach.com.

Literature
SEVEN DEVILS PLAYWRIGHTS
CONFERENCE—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Alpine
Playhouse, 1201 Roosevelt Ave.,
McCall.
YIYUN LI READING—Beijing
native Yiyun Li is the author of
the highly acclaimed books of
stories A Thousand Years of
Good Prayers and Emerald Girl
as well as Gold Boy, in addition
to the novel The Vagrants. She
will read from her works and
conduct a week-long workshop
during her stay in Ketchum. 6:30
p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Center
for the Arts, 191 Fifth St. E.,
Ketchum, 208-726-9491, sunvalleycenter.org.

9:30AM - 1:30PM

8th Street from Bannock to Main Street & on the Grove Plaza
Chef Abbigail Carlson - Cooking with fresh, seasonal
produce from the Market - Saturdays Q 10am to Noon

SPLASH BASH POOL PARTY—
Featuring a poolside bar, special
appetizers and live music from
7-10 p.m. This week: music by
Jeff Crosby and the Refugees.
All ages welcome. 5-10 p.m.
FREE. Owyhee Plaza Hotel, 1109
Main St., Boise, 208-343-4611,
owyheeplaza.com.

Talks & Lectures
GOLDEN EAGLE AUDUBON
SOCIETY PRESENTATION—
Sherrida Woodley, author of
Quick Fall of Light—a novel with
a passenger pigeon in a starring
role—will give a talk concerning
the passenger pigeon, since this
year marks 100 years since the
extinction of the bird. She will
share what she’s discovered
about the bird of our past and
how it affects our future. 7 p.m.
FREE. MK Nature Center, 600
S. Walnut St., Boise, 208-3342225, ﬁshandgame.idaho.gov.

Odds & Ends
CELEBRATION PARK ARCHAEOLOGICAL DAY TRIP—
Visit Idaho’s only archaeological
park along the Snake River. Park
staff will lead a walking tour
of the petroglyphs, explain the
prehistory of the area and teach
you how to throw an atlatl. Enjoy
a picnic lunch and visit historic
Guffy Bridge. Trails may be rocky
and terrain uneven, so wear
sturdy shoes and be prepared
for an adventure. Depart from
the Rec Center at 9 a.m., return
by 3 p.m. Cost includes lunch.
Sponsored by Karcher Estates.
3 p.m. $15. Nampa Recreation
Center, 131 Constitution Way,
Nampa, 208-468-5858, nampaparksandrecreation.org.

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NEWS/NOISE
NOISE
DR EW R EYNOLDS

MAPS AND
ATLASES
Antioquia: Hard to say, easy to get down to.

A SERIES OF FORTUNATE EVENTS
First there was Alive After Five. Then
Uber Tuesdays. Then Atypical Tuesdays. And
now it’s Radio Boise Tuesdays.
Clearly, Boise digs the concert series.
Luckily, there are two more new series
launching this month, though they will not
be weekly.
The ﬁrst will be a monthly hip-hop series
in the parking lot behind China Blue, located
at 100 S. Sixth St., called Sunday Fundays.
A par tnership between Reef and
Nightology, the series will feature national
touring hip-hop acts, a full bar and a foam
pool dance par ty, all in the afternoon and
early evening.
“I think it will be cool for industry people
who don’t get to get out to shows much otherwise,” said Henry Rennar, booker at Reef.
The debut event on Sunday, June 24, will
be headlined by Asher Roth, whose music
video for the song “Last Man Standing”
featured art by Boise cartoonist Chris Hunt.
Rennar was hesitant to say on the
record who he may have lined up down the
road because it isn’t set in stone, but he
whispered it in Boise Weekly’s ear and it’s
going to be big.
Another new series being launched is a
monthly indie/Americana series called Alt
County at Visual Arts Collective, located at
3638 Osage St. in Garden City.
The inaugural show, Saturday, June 16,
will feature ex-My Morning Jacket-er The
Ravenna Colt, ex-The Invasion-er Aaron
Mark Brown and XY chromosome-holder
Ryan Bayne. That show will cost $5 and
start at 8 p.m.
Anneliessa Balk, VAC co-owner and co-curator of the series, said that if it goes well,
it may get promoted to a weekly event.
But if you want to go a whole different
route altogether, this week will see one
of the odder Boise music events in recent
memory: the chance to sing karaoke at the
Old Idaho State Penitentiary.
Singin’ in the Slammer will go down in
history Friday, June 15, from 6-10 p.m. and
cost $8. In addition to endless versions of
“Jailhouse Rock,” there will also be beer
from Crooked Fence Brewing and food from
Free Range Pizza. It is an 18-and-older
event. Call 208-334-2844 for more info.
And ﬁnally, if you like seeing music on
Tuesdays but don’t want it to be part of any
namby-pamby series, swing by Liquid this
week and catch Antioquia, whose worldmusic-inﬂuenced percussion-heavy tunes
are all about the booty-shaking.
That show goes down Tuesday, June 19,
at 10 p.m. and will cost nothing but the
pound of ﬂesh you’ll shed from dancing.

Chicago band charts a
course to Boise
JOSH GROSS
Dave Davison wasn’t that interested in the
guitar as a kid. He preferred the drums. But his
school band wouldn’t have it.
“They made me play trumpet,” he said.
“There was already too many drummers.”
While being denied an instrument is a
blow to any young musician, it is a good
thing Davison’s ambition for the skins
was shot down. Otherwise, he might not
have ended up playing guitar in Maps and
Atlases, which will perform at Neurolux
Friday, June 15.
The Chicago band’s second full-length
album, Beware and Be Grateful, released in
The new album, Beware and Be Grateful, is helping to put this quartet on the map.
April, is a pop powerhouse. Warm guitar
riffs hum beneath Davison’s rich tenor, which
welcome them and then ﬁgure out how to
explores casually existential themes of modern neck as he turns the tuning pegs to create
perform them live.
different chords.
life and relationships.
And though some of the anti-pop purists
“I really liked the idea of doing bass and
“When the fever passes / when we don’t
melody together, divided up between right- and are crying foul, it’s an approach that appears
know what to do / we’ll buy twice as many
to be working. Paste Magazine wrote that the
left-hand stuff like bad piano playing. So that
comforts / like we used to do,” he sings on
band “seems intent on expanding their sonic
became a way of doing things that was really
“Fever,” the album’s second track.
chordal, but at the same time, moved in a way horizons—a task they’ve accomplished with
Full of mid-tempos, major keys and catchy
enviable grace.” The Onion AV Club wrote:
that was melodic.”
hooks, Beware and Be Grateful is exactly the
“This time around, unnecessary clutter has
It was an approach that earned Maps and
sort of album that wields music-snob credibilAtlases a strong following among the guitariati been trimmed, making room for an expanity but doesn’t require challenging one’s sonic
sive atmosphere that’s well-suited to Dave
right out of the gate. The band even got a
sensibilities to enjoy.
write-up in Guitar Player magazine a year after Davison’s folkie, full-throated vocals.” Slant
But seeing the band live is a whole other
Magazine called it “disorienting and thrilling.”
it was founded.
story, because that’s when it becomes clear
The band is touring more than it ever has.
“The key to Maps and Atlases’ topographic
how much more lies beneath.
It’s hitting Boise as part of a six-week U.S. tour,
‘tap-estry’ is the careful layering of counterThere are no keyboards, samples or laying
on effects pedals as a crutch. What sounds like parts,” Guitar Player wrote, after commenting which was hot on the heels of a two-and-halfweek European tour, which came after multiple
on the relative simplicity of the band’s gear.
simple bouncy riffs aided by an echo-pedal on
appearances at SXSW in March.
However, like so many bands with a
the record are revealed as dizzyingly complex
“We’ve always toured a decent amount,”
guitar lines synchronized between Davison, the surplus of instrumental prowess, it took a
said Davison. “But we usually do shorter ones.
few years for the band’s songwriting to shine
band’s other guitarist Erin Elders and bassist
This time, we ﬁgured we’d try to do everythrough its chops.
Shiraz Dada. A seemingly straightforward
where in one shot and then come back later,
With Beware and Be Grateful, Maps and
chord progression becomes a ﬁnger-ballet
rather than breaking it up into two- or threeAtlases has deﬁnitely found the sweet spot,
somewhere between a Van Halen solo and a
week chunks.”
with the complexity of the instrumental
ﬂamenco riff.
Davison said the secret to handling all the
parts disguised in the
Backing it up is the
time on the road is not to think of it as time on
smoothness of the
ferocious drumming of
the road so much as just time.
songwriting. It’s someChris Hainey, whose
With The Big Sleep and Hands,
“I think a lot of times, younger bands have
thing Davison said is
style is like an ADD
Friday, June 15, 8 p.m., $10.
the perspective on touring where you’re thinkalmost becoming a
hurricane. His beats
NEUROLUX
ing about it being like a one-time thing, or a
problem but is also a
might seem off-limits
111 N. 11th St.
vacation kind of thing,” he said. “It’s different
big part of what he
beyond the bounds of
208-343-0886
neurolux.com
likes so much about the when you’re not thinking about, like, this will
noise-metal or free jazz
be over in a week and then I’ll go back to a
new album.
if they didn’t pair so
regular job. You just ﬁgure out how to live in a
“The ﬁrst song on
well with the layers of
nomadic way.”
the album, ‘Old and Gray,’ is fun to listen
guitars.
Davison said one of the biggest ways the
to because there is a million vocal parts,”
Maps and Atlases’ furious math-pop style
band does that is with simple things like trying
said Davison. “It’s fun to listen to things that
may actually have its roots in Davison’s high
to eat something speciﬁc to the location everyare impossible to hear outside that [record],
school afﬁnity for rhythm.
where it stops, instead of just staying up late
because you can’t replicate it live.”
“We were having fun jamming, just trying
every night eating pizza.
Davison said that much of the what the
to do things in a really rhythmic way and cre“All you can really do is just do your
ate different levels of harmony,” said Davison. band now wants to do in the studio is borthing,” said Davison. “And that’s what
derline impossible to do live. But rather than
A solo guitar track called “The Ongoing
we’re doing.”
shrink from those moments, band members
Horrible” features Davison slapping the

MICKEY AVALON, JUNE 15, KFCH
Sometimes we all need to say hello to our hedonistic side
and delight in some debauchery. The occasionally appalling
and always-fun hip-hop of Mickey Avalon, who will play the Knitting Factory Friday, June 15, can provide just the right release.
Avalon’s stop at the Knit won’t be his ﬁrst visit to the City
of Trees—he’s rocked his low-slung skinny jeans on that stage
a few times and gave a mini-performance at China Blue’s
Christmas-themed party in December 2011.
Avalon has transformed personal tragedy into triumph and
gained notoriety in the past few years with songs featured in
ﬁlms such as the The Hangover. He has also collaborated with
Young Jeezy, Unwritten Law and Jermaine Dupri, among others.
At every Avalon show, dance parties and screams abound
with the quirky opening beats of “Jane Fonda” and the cringeworthy-yet-hilarious lyrics of “My Dick.” But Avalon will bring
more than just the crowd favorites; he’s also promoting his
new album, Loaded, which was released in April.
—Sheree Whiteley
7:30 p.m. doors, 8:30 p.m. show, $17-$45. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.

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THE MOONDOGGIES, JUNE 16, NEUROLUX
A trip to Alaska inspired Moondoggies lead singer Kevin
Murphy to pen the tracks on the band’s 2010 release, Tidelands.
However, that record offers up none of the harshness of
Alaska’s crippling winters, favoring sweet ruminations on the
mist-cloaked beauty of the remote land. Similarly, the Seattle
quintet’s moniker denotes none of the music’s seriousness,
as it comes from a ﬁctional surfer-bum character who loved to
catch waves by moonlight.
With Tidelands, as much as the band’s 2008 freshman release, Don’t be a Stranger, and 2010’s You’ll Find No Answers
Here, the band doesn’t chase after the overdone surfer rock
genre. Rather, it focuses on an esoteric de-militarization of the
line separating Americana and rock ’n’ roll, with hints of Bon
Iver peppered throughout. Saturday, June 16, The Moondoggies will emerge from the woods with Boise’s Grand Falconer
to entrance the Neurolux audience.
—Andrew Crisp
With Grand Falconer. 8 p.m., $8-$10. Neurolux, 111 N.
11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

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NEWS/ARTS
ARTS/CULTURE

Will Eichelberger is among the artists whose
work will show at Art & Ale.

BOISE TURNS 150,
ART & ALE TURNS TWO
From Basque Block inhabitants to river
rats to hard-partying college students,
Boise’s culture is as diverse as the generations who have spent 150 years creating
it. To kick off a yearlong celebration of
Boise’s 150th anniversar y, the Boise
City Department of Arts and Histor y is
collecting written works that will create a
conversation about the City of Trees and
its intriguing histor y.
“What we want to do is capture all
sorts of reﬂections about Boise that would
capture a moment in time,” said Margaret
Marti, project manager for the Department
of Arts and History.
All submissions must somehow
reﬂect one of the Boise 150 celebration’s
three themes: enterprise, environment
and community.
“Those are pretty broadly interpreted,”
said Marti. “We don’t know what we’re
going to get at all. We’re trying not to have
any preconceived notions at all because we
hope that this will stir up excitement about
[Boise’s history].”
Anyone of any age is welcome to submit
work for consideration. All entries must be
no longer than 1,500 words and submitted by noon Saturday, Sept. 15. Complete
rules and an online submission form can be
found at boiseartsandhistory.org.
And speaking of submission, Payette
Brewing Company and the C.O.T arts,
culture and music blog want revelers to
submit to their call to have a good time at
the second Art & Ale event.
On Saturday, June 16, Payette will ﬁll
with several local artists and musicians during this free event, which takes place from
noon to 10 p.m.
“It’s a cool way to see the local art and
talent right here in Boise,” said Sheila Francis, marketing director for Payette.
Local artists include Tony Caprai, known
for his dark oil paintings of night scenes,
as well as Will Eichelberger, Sector 17 and
more. Artwork can be purchased at the
event. The Dirty Moogs, Jac Sound, Haven
Snow and others will perform live music
throughout the day.
The ﬁrst Art & Ale took place in February
and Francis hopes the event will become a
quarterly shindig.
“C.O.T are just good friends of ours,”
she said. “We had the space and thought,
‘Why not try it?’”
Big Daddy’s BBQ and Saint Lawrence
Gridiron food trucks will be onsite as well.
The event is 21 and older.
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SUREL’S PLACE
A new artist-in-residency program blossoms in Garden City
ANDREW CRISP
Karen Bubb, Boise Department of Arts and
At the corner of 33rd and Carr streets, near
History’s public arts manager.
the Boise River in Garden City, sits Surel
Now Garden City has renamed the neighMitchell’s quiet, well manicured home. The
borhood, which encompasses Visual Arts
streets there are devoid of sidewalks, chainCollective, Woman of Steel Gallery and Surel’s
link fences ring the yards of nearby homes and
Place, as the Surel Mitchell Live, Work, Create
car-ﬁlled lots pepper the streetscape.
District. The district extends from the Boise
But behind the scenes, the neighborhood is
River to the Bench, and from 37th Street to
changing. After Mitchell’s death in 2011, her
the Riverside Hotel.
daughter Rebecca Mitchell joined members
“Right now that area is changing quite a
of the Boise arts community to transform the
bit,” said Jenah Thornborrow with Garden
residence—half home, half art studio—into
City’s Development Services. “The genesis of
the Treasure Valley’s newest artist-in-residence
the idea was when Surel Mitchell passed away,
program: Surel’s Place.
it was a way to recognize her as being instru“Ultimately, her home is just a metaphor
mental in the creation of that area.”
for her heart—a unique, comfortable space
Thornborrow said Mitchell’s presence
where all sorts of people gathered and felt
helped nurture the arts scene now blooming
safe,” daughter Rebecca said, in a eulogy for
in the area. Surel’s
her mother.
Place organizers
Stories from friends
believe they can help
reference Mitchell’s
For more information on the program and to
cultivate a new crop
dinner parties and her
download an application, visit
of artists who will
never-ending sociality.
surelsplace.org.
continue Mitchell’s
The space gives an imvision. Applicants will
pression of its former
be chosen by their
owner: light ﬂoods the
medium for stays ranging from a few weeks to
building and provides a warm glow. A large
a few months. Organizers hope that the quiet
wooden table sits near the door, which served
as a utilitarian-but-still-beautiful work surface, neighborhood, within sight of the river and its
greenery, will help inspire artists.
and the living room lacks a television.
“We’d like people to be able to have that
“She was just a very quirky, unusual,
same, really satisfying experience that my
strong-willed, strong-minded, hilarious, spirmom had in this house,” said Rebecca.
ited person. She was her own person,” said

The project’s organizers hope the space can
retain that nurturing charm to allow an artist
freedom from economic woes while creating.
“Artists are often economically marginalized,” said Michael Cordell, board member
and Enso Artspace artist. “It’s a huge cost
savings to be able to have a space under one
mortgage—work and live.”
Surel’s Place will provide free rent, utilities,
Wi-Fi, a modest living stipend and use of
bicycles. A space for living and creating was
essential to Mitchell, Rebecca explained.
“There would be times where she’s working like a maniac, and there would be times
where maybe she would be doing more reading,” Rebecca said. “You don’t have to plan,
you don’t have to drive there. It could be 8
o’clock in the morning or 8 o’clock at night.”
Cordell said spending that much time close
to one’s art allows for reﬂection on the work.
Like most everyone else who knew Mitchell,
he was familiar with her process.
“She would sit here and review last night’s
work,” he said. “‘This needs this, that or the
other thing. And all of a sudden, I know what
it means.’”
Surel’s Place will apply for 501(c)(3) nonproﬁt status by the end of June and the artists
will be chosen by a board, on which Bubb will
serve as a member. While the City of Boise
won’t be an ofﬁcial sponsor of the project,
Bubb will be involved in its creation.
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LE ILA RA ME
ER

A live-work residency program has been
put in place to honor Surel Mitchell.

“They’ll submit applications for what they
want to do there, what their medium is,” said
Bubb. “We see one person in there at a time.
They’ll be taken on a rotating basis based on
what they’re working on.”
Everyone working on the Surel’s Place project said they had a personal connection to the
woman, which was sparked by her artwork.
“I met her when I was 16,” said Bubb. “I
was on a tour from my art class at Bishop
Kelly to visit her studio. I really loved her
work. ... I became a groupie. I just started
coming back and hanging out.”
During those days, Mitchell shared a studio
in the basement of the Fifth Street Belgravia
Building. She worked in the back of the rented
space with local artists Edith Hope and Maureen Boyle at the front.
“We stayed in touch. I went to school in
New York, and I would see her there when she
came back to visit her sister,” said Bubb. “I
got to know her family well.”
Out at the home on May 21, Surel’s sister,
Vicki Tosher, said the live-work idea was one
they grew up with. Their father, Ulek, was a
furniture maker and painter. He had a workshop separate from the home, adjacent to an
attached art studio.
“You’d walk through his studio, and then
there was his furniture shop. My dad had a
live-create-work space—it just now dawned
on me. He would be on his way to work in his
shop, and he would literally stop and paint a
few strokes and then continue on to his shop,”
Tosher said.
Originally from New York City, Mitchell
grew up in Pennsylvania. After moving to
Idaho in the 1970s, she slowly established
Boise as her new home through art.
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“That was Surel’s mentality—you live
where you create, where you do your artwork,” said board member Suzanne
Knibbe. “I think it just adds to your
ability to be creative.”
After serving as a docent for Boise Art
Museum, Mitchell served on the museum’s
board and helped with the Boise Open Studios
Collective Organization and the annual Modern Art event.
Mitchell dealt with numerous health issues
toward the end of her life. Though she quit
smoking 20 years ago, she was diagnosed
with lung cancer six months before her death.
Because of that, the project accepts only nonsmoking applicants.
“It still came back to get her in the end,”
said Rebecca. “So that’s deﬁnitely nonnegotiable.”
In the ﬁnal six months of Mitchell’s life,
Rebecca left her job and family in Washington,
D.C., and cared for her ailing mother. People
poured into the home to show their love in
Mitchell’s waning days.
“I am drunk with love and gratitude
for all of you. You nourished us spiritually,
intellectually and physically,” Rebecca said
at the funeral. When Mitchell passed away
in 2011, a promise was made to transform
her home into a lasting testimony. In lieu of
ﬂowers, mourners sent donations—$10,000
to date.
“So many of you came to her for the same
reason I came to her,” said Rebecca at the
funeral. “She inspired you during some small
private moment, or a piece of her art made
you see the world, or maybe her smile and
laughter or wisdom healed some broken part
of you.”

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SCREEN/THE BIG SCREEN

DOCTOR’S
ORDER
Hysteria offers plenty of
buzz in vibrator story
GEORGE PRENTICE
Hysteria, a saucy, provocative but never
pretentious diversion, is a rare sex comedy
where women are in on the joke. While there
are thousands of ﬁlms that joke about or
even simulate sex, all too often females serve
as plot devices at best and props at worst.
But in director Tanya Wexler’s full-oflife chucklefest regarding the invention of
the vibrator, women are not only having a
jolly good time up on the big screen (and in
a particular doctor’s stirrups) but they offer
historical consideration to an issue that is as
contemporary as the 2012 Idaho Legislature:
a woman’s choice regarding her body.
In fact, I couldn’t help but envision the
John-Smythe (played by a wonderful Rupert
male-dominated Idaho Statehouse as I
Everett) and feminist ﬁrebrand Charlotte
watched Hysteria’s dramatization of 1880s
Dalrymple (Maggie Gyllenhaal). The ﬁlm
London—a repressed patriarchy of men
covers plenty of landscape but sails along at
who dismiss women’s depression or anxiety
a nice, peppy pace,
as emotional “hystepausing occasionally
ria.” Fast-forward
for a smart snicker or
130 years and we had
HYSTERIA (R)
full chortle.
this year’s proposed
Directed by Tanya Wexler
Granville, suffering
legislation from ReStarring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy and
from what we considpublican Sen. Chuck
Rupert Everett
er today as carpel tunWinder, insisting that
Opens on Friday, June 15 at The Flicks
nel syndrome due to a
he knew better than
nonstop carrousel of
an Idaho woman refemale patients needgarding her reproductive rights, urging a mandatory, pre-abortion ing clitoral massage to relieve their hysteria,
turns to John-Smythe, an original steampunk
ultrasound. Put Winder into a morning coat
and top hat and he might have ﬁt quite nicely gearhead of gadgetry. Together, they retroﬁt a
motorized feather duster into … well, you get
into a trussed-up Victorian age.
where this is going, don’t you?
Hysteria is the (mostly true) tale of young
But it is Granville and Dalrymple’s sparksDr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) and his
ﬂy-when-they’re-together relationship that is
invention of the mechanical vibrator, along
the sweet soul of the ﬁlm. A suffragette two
with a bit of help from inventor Edmund St.

Hysteria gives off good vibrations.

decades before the phrase was coined, Dalrymple runs a halfway house/soup kitchen
in London’s shadows, pushing back against
convention and, any chance she can, male
domination. Gyllenhaal embodies her role
with effortless charm—a clever force of nature and always comfortable in her own skin.
“I do think [sex] makes us ﬂushed and uncomfortable,” said Gyllenhaal at the Toronto
International Film Festival in September
2011, when I ﬁrst saw the ﬁlm. “I just don’t
think people talk about it very much.”
But there’s plenty to talk about, and
enjoy, with Hysteria. For the record though,
my sense is that distributors did an abysmal
job of promoting this movie. Gyllenhaal
and Dancy are swell, the production values
are top notch and the story is highly original. They should have trusted audiences
more to ﬁnd, accept and embrace the ﬁlm.
Hysteria is crafted with a steady hand to a
satisfying climax.

Special Screenings
THE ALIGNMENT WITHIN—A documentary from director and Mayan
expert Jose Jaramillo on the Mayan
calendar and the 2012 cosmic connection. Jaramillo will give a lecture
and host a question-and-answer
session. Admission includes a DVD
and your Mayan Calendar Day sign.
Friday, June 15-Saturday, June 16, 7
p.m. $25. Sage Yoga and Wellness,
242 N. Eighth St., Ste. 200, Boise,
208-338-5430, sageyogaboise.com.

FOR THE NEXT 7 GENERATIONS—A
winner of numerous independent, documentary and indigenous ﬁlm festival
awards. Join Grandmother Flordemayo,
elder and universal healer from the
highlands of Central America, as she
introduces the ﬁlm and shares the mission and wisdom of the Grandmothers.
Enjoy local music during intermission
and end the evening with a questionand-answer session with Grandmother
Flordemayo. Get discounted tickets

WAITING FOR BEAR
Idaho’s bear-hunting regulations have a long history
BY RANDY KING

WET AND WILD
June 9-10 was a big weekend for both
hard-core competitors and being really wet
(and rather cold).
In fact, the cold, rainy, windy weather
actually forced the ofﬁcials of the Ironman
70.3 Boise to cut the epic race short, reducing the length of the bike ride from more
than 50 miles to just 12 out of fear that a
cold swim and miserable weather would put
competitors at risk for hypothermia.
Boise Weekly intern Emily Anderson
reported that while some of racers were disappointed with the cut, others who came to
the ﬁnish line with blue-tinged lips weren’t
too upset by the decision.
“I’ve never been so cold in my life,” said
A.J. Baucco, a veteran Ironmanner from
Ohio, who ﬁnished 24th. “I’ve done a lot of
these: New Orleans, Kansas, Mexico, fuck,
you name it. And that sucked.”
Despite the cuts, the real drama came at
the ﬁnish line when two New Zealanders—
Callum Millward and Matty Reed—made
Ironman history when they tied, crossing
the ﬁnish line in 2 hours, 13 minutes and
18 seconds. After three hours of deliberation, both were awarded $10,000 checks.
In the women’s race, Jodie Swallow of Great
Britain ﬁnished at the head of the pack, with
a time of 2 hours, 29 minutes.
Speed and water were also the focus a
bit further north at the inaugural North Fork
Championship. The kayaking race held on
the North Fork of the Payette River attracted
top talent from around the world and across
the country, who all wanted to try their skills
on the Jacob’s Ladder rapid.
More than 30 racers tried to make it
through the three-quarter-mile-long rapid as
quickly as possible, but in the end, it was
an Idahoan who came out on top.
Hailey resident Ryan Casey, 35, showed
a ﬁeld of younger competitors what 20
years of paddling will get you—a ﬁrst-place
ﬁnish, a check for $4,000, and a trip to the
Whitewater Grand Prix in Chile in December.
BW intern Jessica Murri was on hand to
watch Casey claim the title with a time of 2
minutes, 17 seconds. According to Murri,
the win was a surprise even for Casey.
“It’s anybody’s ballgame with the course
we had today. Could have gone to anybody,”
Casey said. “I feel really lucky.”
Second place went to Tyler Brandt from
Missoula, Mont., who won $2,000, and
third place went to Canadian Mikkel St.
Jean-Duncan.
Catch up on the action from both the
Ironman and North Fork Championship with
slideshows and videos at boiseweekly.com.
—Deanna Darr

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Sitting in a tree
stand with a Kermit
the Frog doll is not
what I would call
a normal day. The
trail cameras set
up on the bear bait
indicated that a
cinnamon-colored
bear had been
coming to feed at
about 8:30 p.m., so
I set myself in the
tree stand at about
5 p.m., giving me
and the bear plenty
of time in either
direction.
When I had
showed the pictures
of the cinnamon
bear to my kids,
they started calling
it “Fozzie”—yes,
after the Muppet
character of the
same color.
As I settled
into the stand, I
noticed a green
arm sticking out
of my backpack.
I investigated and
found a 14-inch
green doll—another
Muppet character.
So there we were,
Kermit and I,
hunting a cinnamon bear my boys
nicknamed Fozzie,
silently waiting for
a bear to saunter
into the bait about
30 yards in front of me.
I had gotten my spring tag easily. Idaho,
unlike other Northwest states, sells its
spring bear tags over the counter. Almost
all units with bears have a two-month
season as well—mid-April to mid-June is
normal. Some units even have a two-bear
harvest limit. The season is a month longer
than that for turkey and about seven weeks
longer than most elk seasons. With the few
bears I have actually seen in the wilds of
Idaho, I began to wonder why we had such
a liberal bear hunting season.
Apparently, Idaho has an abundance of
black bears, and that wealth has its beneﬁts
and its drawbacks, according to Craig White,
a biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish
and Game.
“The reason that we have so many black
bear in Idaho is our abundance of forested

Eventually, two Idaho
biologists, John Beecham
and John Rohlman,
started studying the subject of Idaho black bears.
The culmination of their
work was the book Shadows in the Forest: Idaho’s
Black Bear.
According to White,
the book and associated
research “totally changed
our bear management
system” and led Idaho to
have “some of the highest
bear populations anywhere, especially in the
Lolo and Lochsa areas.”
The effective management increased populations, the increased
populations affected the
elk calf survival and thus
the elk herds. In order
to help the elk herds,
IDFG allows spring bear
hunting.
Oregon also allows
limited bear hunting in
the spring but has a different set of rules. First,
a hunter’s name needs to
be drawn from a random
lottery. Additionally, it is
illegal to hunt over bait
or to chase and tree bears
with dogs. Both of those
activities, within certain
parameters, are legal in
Idaho.
Asked to explain the
difference in the two
states’ laws, White said:
“People have different
values on things. Some don’t feel that it’s fair
chase to hunt bears with dogs. ... It is just a
cultural values thing.”
So there I was sitting over a completely
legal bear baiting station looking at the
backside of Bogus Basin. Baiting is not an
exact science, but it is close. In some areas,
at least those with cellphone reception, you
can actually watch your bait cameras in real
time. They will remotely turn off and on with
movement on the bait.
To run a bear bait, a hunter needs to register the site with the IDFG. Many rules apply
to what is allowed to be used as bait. The
basics are: no game animals, no game ﬁsh
and 200 yards from the nearest road. Bears,
like humans, are omnivores and will eat just
about anything. Popular baits are things like
popcorn and cull onions, or anything that is
sweet. They love them some sugar.
JAM ES LLOYD

Matty Reed (left) and Callum Millward (right) sprint
for the ﬁnish of the Boise IronMan 70.3. Race
ofﬁcials declared that there was no clear winner.

habitat,” White said. But having an abundance of bears is not always a good thing.
“By the late ’90s, the Lolo and Lochsa areas were suffering from a lower-than-normal
elk herd population. Bottom line is that black
bears have an effect on elk calf mortality.
... Spring bear hunting season essentially allowed for our elk calves to survive in the ﬁrst
30 days. We liberalized the black bear season
to help elk calf survival,” said White.
“In 1943, black bears were classiﬁed as a
big game animal in Idaho, but it wasn’t until 1973 that resident hunters were required
to have a tag in their possession while hunting. Before that, there was little protection
provided and you could just about shoot at
anytime.”
Bear populations were low and the creature lacked respect from the conservation and
hunting communities.

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Being creatures of habit, bears will often get into a
routine with the bait site. They will hit at speciﬁc times of
day, most often in the late evening and early morning. The
goal for a hunter is to sneak in to the bait site and wait for
the bear to show up for a meal.
On the hunter’s end, this is often an expensive proposition. About twice a week during bear season, they have
to haul up hundreds of pounds of food to keep the bears
interested in the site. Gas, time and the cost of food are
prohibitive to all but the most dedicated.
Another method of bear hunting is the old-school
European method of hound dogs. The dogs catch the scent
of a bear and then chase the creature until, exhausted, the
bear climbs a tree. The hunter, following the sounds of
the dogs barking or maybe a GPS attached to the hounds,
approaches the bear and dispatches it. This long-held
tradition comes in a direct line from fox and stag hunters
in the old world. Again, this is an expensive proposition.
Specially trained dogs, expensive equipment, the danger of
wolves killing your dogs and fuel alone make running bear
dogs prohibitive.
And another law that applies to most takes in Idaho
does not apply to bears: the wanton waste law. Essentially,
a hunter can shoot a bear and leave everything but the
skull and hide behind. The meat will be eaten by other
creatures, surely, but the whole notion of killing and not
eating a big game animal is a tough pill to swallow.
“It is a decision made by the [Fish and Game] Commission. Bear meat isn’t required to be salvaged. The rule has
gone back and forth over the years. We have let the rule
become more liberal to help reduce the population. Bear
are not a species that most want to eat, it is a predator,”
said White. “Also, some areas are very difﬁcult to get in
and out of. So we don’t ask the hunters to pull the meat
out that they might not eat anyway.”
White added: “We encourage animals to be used to the
fullest extent. We require the bear hide and skull to be
removed. They are often used as an educational tool.
“Black bears are an awesome species to view but we
need to control them so we can have elk as well. In most
areas, we are meeting our goals and objectives.”
Bear meat also has a few problems of its own according to naturalist and author Steven Rinella. He notes that
bears tend to have a trichinosis problem, the disease that
until this year, the FDA thought pigs would give you so
they asked that you cook your pork to well done. Rinella
notes that “in Montana’s Lincoln and Sanders counties,
100 percent of the bears tested over 6 years of age have
tested positive for the parasite.” The bears get the disease
by eating trash that contains the round worm Trichina
Spiralis.
Rinella added in an article posted to petersonshunting.
com that, “nowadays, over 90 percent of U.S. trichinosis
cases are attributable to bear meat.” While Rinella notes
the potential dangers of bear meat, he concluded his article with advice on cooking it. The best way to deal with
the trichinosis problem in bears is to cook the meat past
137 degrees. This almost assuredly will kill the bug and
any chance you have of contacting it.
“Remember,” Rinella wrote, “you killed it, you eat it.”
For me, bait hunting bear is an exercise in patience,
listening for the cracking of sticks that indicate something
walking into the bait. Staying awake is the hardest part.
But off in the distance, I heard a shufﬂe and my eyes
caught a streak of cinnamon making its way through the
brush. Excuse me, I think Kermit and I have some work to
do … saving elk calves.
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LEAGUES—New teams can
register for adult slowpitch softball leagues from Monday, June
18-Friday, June 22. League play
begins late July and continues
through September. Visit cityofboise.org/parks for a roster. For
more info, email sports@cityofboise.org or call 208-608-7650.
Boise City Recreation ofﬁce, 110
Scout Lane, Boise, 208-3844256, cityofboise.org/parks.
BOISE TO IDAHO CITY MOUNTAIN BIKE TOUR—Register at
spondoro.com for this mountain
bike tour, which will take place
Saturday, June 16-Sunday,
June 17, and departs from Fort
Boise. Camping at Idaho City is
encouraged, and the registration fee includes camping fees.
Trudy’s Kitchen will provide
dinner and breakfast and Ninkasi
Brewery will supply tasty brews.
$80-$100. Shu’s Idaho Running
Company, 1758 W. State St.,
Boise, 208-344-6604, idahorunningcompany.com.
IDAHO BOCCE BALL CHAMPIONSHIPS—The Idaho Bocce Ball
Club will host the championship
games for men’s and women’s
singles Sunday, June 17, at
10 a.m. Idaho residents may
register by ﬁlling out the application at idahobocceballclub.com.
Contact Lou at 208-375-5228,
Mike at 208-376-3171 or Judy
at 208-890-4178 for more info.
Proof of residency is required.
Through Wednesday, June 13.
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Recurring
GR8 TO SK8—Wear a crazy
costume while you hone your ice
skating skills. Dress in the day’s
theme on Fridays this summer
and receive $3 off your public
skating session. Visit the website for a list of themes. Idaho
IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman
Road, Boise, 208-331-0044,
idahoiceworld.com.
THAI CHI IN THE GARDEN—
Tai chi, a meditative practice
incorporating slow movement,
has been described as poetry
in motion. Provided by longtime practitioner Jeff Rylee,
participants are encouraged
to become centered with the
invigorating morning sounds and
scents of the Meditation Garden.
Saturdays, 10 a.m. FREE for
IBG members, $5 nonmembers.
Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355
N. Penitentiary Road, Boise,
208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

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NEWS/FOOD
LEILA R AM ELLA- R ADER

FOOD
PATR IC K S W EENEY

THE OTHER
SIX DAYS
Boise Co-op’s new shop is all about
man’s best friends.

CO-OP OPENS NEW PET SHOP
Canned food lines the shelves at a new
store next to the Boise Co-op Wine Shop.
One ﬁve-star entree includes turkey, duck,
chicken, sweet potatoes, carrots, peas and
granny smith apples. But this gourmet grub
is not meant for man, it’s for his best friend.
The co-op unofﬁcially opened the new
Co-op Pet Shop on June 4. The store carries
all of the co-op’s previous pet goods, along
with a 30-percent increase in product, including bulk dog and cat food and doggie ice
cream (coming soon). The shop also stocks
do-it-yourself dog food, some of which suggests adding meat.
Zachary Jones, pet supply buyer for
Boise Co-op, pitched the idea of an off-site
pet supply store 18 months ago and the coop’s current renovation plans ﬁnally made it
possible. The co-op will soon add self-serve
islands to the deli and put in a dining area.
Changing the location of the pet products to
outside the main store will help make room
for these alterations.
The Co-op Pet Shop will hold its grand
opening on Monday, June 25, and will operate Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., and
Sunday 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
And in other animal food news, Payette
Brewing Company recently announced that
it will be donating its spent brewing grains to
Idaho Fish and Game for beer bear bait.
“Idaho Fish and Game will be using
our spent grains to safely trap bears for
research, relocation, whatever IDF does,”
Payette wrote on Facebook.
And in other brews news, Bogus Brewing’s Collin Rudeen is adapting the CSA, or
community supported agriculture, model for
beer. Bogus plans to offer a CSB membership and eventually open its taproom doors,
which will likely be in Garden City, to the
public. According to its website:
“What’s really cool about this idea is
that it will give us the ﬂexibility to have a
ton of variety and experimentation ... And
of course, you’ll getting something new
and exciting ever y month with your CSB
membership.”
Bogus Brewing is currently raising funds
for the ﬁrst phase of the project on Kickstarter. As of press time, it has raised over
$9,000 of it’s $30,000 goal.
And in sadder news, Twig’s Cellar ofﬁcially shut its doors on June 8. According
to a press release:
“The economy has taken its toll on us
and at some point one must make the
decision not to continue. We will be open
for wine only (no food) on Thursday, May 14,
from 4-10 p.m. to visit with all our wonderful
customers and say goodbye to the cellar.”

How local farms prepare
for the Capital City
Public Market
JACLYN BRANDT
Boiseans wake up early on summer Saturday
mornings for the chance to get the freshest
lettuce, the plumpest tomatoes or out-ofthis-world onions. But for the vendors at
the Capital City Public Market, their day
doesn’t just begin when the sun comes up on
Saturday. For many, readying for the weekly
market is a yearlong process.
Rice Family Farms is one of the larger
farms at the market, with a 28-acre certiﬁed
organic operation located in Meridian.
“We are going to start harvesting another
row of red leaf for the co-op and then we will
start harvesting for the market,” said Irene LaLee Rice operates a 28-acre certiﬁed organic farm outside Meridian. Rice Family Farms
gunas, farm supervisor at Rice Family Farms.
is one of the largest farm vendors at the weekly market.
Lagunas stood in the middle of a large
ﬁeld full of lettuce, kale, chard and onions.
“I think those are banana peppers,” Timm earlier one year to get tomatoes to the market
That weekend, farmers began transplanting
before anyone else.
said, pointing to a plant nestled between
sweet potatoes, and later in the year they’ll
“The one time we planted in December,
some jalapenos and herbs, “But I didn’t plant
plant tomatoes. It was one of many ﬁelds on
our gas bill ended up being $15,000,” said
any of those this year.”
the property, which also houses greenhouses
Janell.
Timm and his employees watch over the
and at least three residences. The homes of
They didn’t try that again.
Gilbert and Lee Rice, father and son, sit next plants in the greenhouses, and watering is
But for all the large farms with multiple
done automatically on a timer. Janell has her
to each other at the end of a private road
own shed out back. When the plants are har- avenues for selling their products, there are
with ﬁelds on either side.
also many small vendors whose Saturday
vested, a minimum of three times per week,
Gilbert, the patriarch of the family who
market sales comprise a large part of their
they are brought to the shed and she takes
started Rice Family Farms 20 years ago,
over, stickering and separating the vegetables. income.
passed away May 24 at the age of 91.
If you venture down Idaho Street at the
“I come in here and turn the music up,”
Though his death dealt a big blow to the
market, you’ll notice four booths run by
Janell said. “They love the music.”
family, the vegetables still needed tending.
refugees, where you can ﬁnd everything from
The shed is stacked 5 feet high with
Lagunas’ path to the farm was also
kale to herbs to freshly cooked sambusas, a
boxes of tomatoes. There are boxes for the
through her family.
fried breakfast concoction.
Saturday Market, boxes for fruit stands and
“I started working here when I was 15,”
“We harvest for the market on Fridays;
boxes for grocery stores, even boxes for retail
she said. “My dad worked here, and we
it takes about four to six hours,” said Elysia
behemoth Walmart. And those unsuitable to
would come after school to help out.”
sell are not wasted—many are Ewing, marketing coordinator for Global
Lagunas left the business to
Gardens, a nonproﬁt that takes donated land
either canned or fed to their
work in the corporate world
and teaches refugees how to farm and mandonkeys.
but returned three years ago to
The Capital City Public
age it.
“At one time or another,
work full time.
Market runs every Saturday
“Many of them were farmers in their
we
have
sold
to
every
store
in
“I love it here because there
through December from
country,” said Ewing. “We teach them
the area,” said Timm.
is something different every
9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on
how to harvest the plants that grow in our
Because this farm is the
Eighth Street from Bannock
day,” she said.
Street to The Grove; Idaho
climate.”
family’s bread and butter,
The Rice family’s story is
Street between Capital BouRefugees work their own plots, all of
changes
in
climate,
diseases
similar to others at the market.
levard and Ninth Street.
which are at least one-quarter acre, and then
and other factors can affect
“Our land is probably
their livelihoods not just in the sell the veggies at the market. Global Gardens
worth more than the business,
also has a Community Supported Agriculture
short term, but for an entire
but this is our living,” said
program. A customer who signs up for a CSA
Janell Hathaway, one of the owners of H&H year or more. Though Janell explained that
share pays a ﬂat $415 fee and receives a box
planting in a greenhouse rather than a ﬁeld
Farms.
minimizes harm, she said they still have many of veggies each week throughout the season.
H&H Farms sits at the end of a road litGlobal Gardens has property all over
factors to deal with.
tered with suburban houses in Eagle. Timm
Boise, including at local businesses such as
“These plants need to be babied,” she
Hathaway’s father moved to Idaho to start
Grace Assisted Living and the Girl Scouts.
said. “They are very volatile to things.”
the farm, and Timm followed 23 years ago
“We are always looking for land to
Weather is another factor. H&H normally
from Washington.
be donated,” Ewing said.
plants in January and begins harvesting in
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April. But because very few farms produce
houses, full of different types of tomatoes,
which vegetables to grow, and the
tomatoes before this, they decided to plant
jalapenos, cucumbers, herbs and peppers.

—Jessica Murri and Tara Morgan

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CHARDONNAY: THE JUDGMENT OF BOISE
In 1976, the tasting known as the Judgment of Paris put
California on the world wine map. Chardonnay and cabernet
from the Golden State more than held their own against some
of the top guns from France. We did our own mini-Judgment,
pitting four California chardonnays against four from France.
I’m a self-confessed lover of white burgundy, but again, California proved worthy, taking three of the top four spots:
2010 LA COTE BLANCHE MACON-VILLAGES CHARDONNAY,
$13.99
Fermented in stainless steel, this no-oak wine has gone
through malolactic fermentation, adding a deﬁnite richness to
the nose, while taming the acidity. You get ﬂoral aromas of honeyed citrus and ﬁg. Round and ripe in the mouth, this wine’s
lime and melon ﬂavors are bright and lively. This was the sole
French entry to make the cut.
2011 MORGAN METALLICO UN-OAKED CHARDONNAY, $20
Hailing from Monterey, Calif., this wine sees no oak and no
malolactic fermentation. The result is pure chardonnay with
lively citrus and pear aromas, colored by touches of tarragon,
white pepper and lavender. Sweet citrus and peach ﬂavors are
nicely balanced by food-friendly acidity.
2010 SONOMA-CUTRER CHARDONNAY, $21
A California classic from the Russian River region, this wine
is partially barrel fermented then aged in oak for nine months,
which results in a well-integrated wood inﬂuence. The nose is
ﬁlled with ﬂoral fruit backed by mineral, herb and butter with
a hint of caramel. Crisp acidity balances creamy peach, apple
and lime with a hint of spice on the ﬁnish.
2010 STARRY NIGHT CHARDONNAY, $17.99
This wine is another barrel-fermented Russian River entry.
You deﬁnitely get toasty oak notes on the nose, along with
pear, peach and quince. The oak colors the palate as well, adding touches of smoke and vanilla to the tropical fruit ﬂavors. A
bit of minerality comes through on the ﬁnish and lingers nicely.

winter months
are spent learning
growing, harvesting
and even marketing
methods.
Though Saturday market sales subsidize their
incomes, many refugee
farmers also have other
jobs.
“[He] works for a laundry company, [she] works
for the school district,”
said Ewing, pointing to
different workers at the
booths.
A number of farms
with booths at the Capital
City Public Market also
sell to local stores. Global
Gardens provides produce
to Boise Co-op, Three
Girls Catering, Open Table
Catering and the new
Farm and Garden Produce
stand in Hyde Park. Rice
Family Farms also sells at
the co-op, select Albertsons
locations and the Sunday
Market in Bown Crossing,
among others.
H&H is a rarity at the
Saturday market, in that
only a small percentage of
what they produce makes it
to the market.
“Our setup at the
market is very minimal,”
said Timm. “Only about
2 percent of what we do is
for the market.”
But H&H still preps
for the market all week,
as Janell sorts out which
tomatoes will go to which
store, market or restaurant.
Rice Family Farms, like
Global Gardens, harvests
for the market on Friday.
It boxes up what it expects
to sell and loads it into a
truck. The boxes are then
brought to another area of
the farm, where they are
washed.
“We harvest for the
Saturday Market and
Sunday Market at the same
time because we don’t
harvest on weekends,” said
Lagunas.
Lagunas said there are
very rarely leftovers from
the Saturday Market, unless something out of their
control happens, like rain.
“Sometimes we even sell
out before the market is
over,” she said.
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CALL TO ARTISTS

Meridian Arts Festival. July 14 &
15 at Story Park. Email wayne@
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INITIAL POINT ART GALLERY
Nampa Art Guild presents “Courage of Expression” art exhibit
July 2nd-August 2nd. The exhibit
features watercolor, acrylic, oil
& mixed media. Monday-Friday,
8am to 5pm. Opening Reception Tuesday, July 3rd 4:30 to
7:30pm. Meridian City Hall, 3rd
ﬂoor, 33 E. Broadway Ave. nampaartguild.org.
MARKET AT THE WATERFRONT
AT LAKE HARBOR
Our goal is to represent many
cultures, booth space now available. Accepting vendors: food,
clothing, produce, crafts, jewelry,
art. Saturdays in July 9-3. Contact: The Waterfront at Lake Harbor, 3050 N Lake Harbor blvd.
Suite 120, 208-639-1441.
AIR STREAM PARTY
MID CENTURY MODERN EVENT
jillopy brought two containers of
mid century modern furniture
to Boise from England & the Air
Streamers are joining the party.
June 14th at jillopy, 650 E. Fairview Ave, Sevoy Bulding. Call Jill
for details, 884-4599.
RAW CALL TO ARTISTS
International organization now
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performance art, fashion design,
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33 Its first car was the
Model AA
35 Well-connected
industrialists?
36 Generally preferred
work shift
37 John
38 Raring to go
40 They get punched out
43 “The Ballad of ___,”
1967 comedy/western
45 Part of L.A.P.D.

“I suspected as much!”
Near the center
Shoe part
Part of a calf
Future C.P.A.’s study
Special creator?
Muscle woe
Food in many shapes
Cross the doorsill
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About to happen
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97 In the distance
99 “Young Frankenstein”
role
101 Kojak’s first name
104 Afflict
105 Biblical “indeed”
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The names and addresses of the
Petitioner’s nearest relatives are:
Kendal G. Eyre (Father) 3033 Chieftain Way, Boise, ID 83709
Rebecca Eyre (Mother) 3033 Chieftain Way, Boise, ID 83709
Jerem Eyre (Brother 1628 Renaissance Way, Springﬁeld, UT 84663
Brookann Hessing (Sister) 3831
N. Bryce Canyon Pl., Meridian,ID
83646
Corey Eyre (Brother) 1602 S. Juanita St., Boise ID 83706
Shannon Willardson (Sister) 366
East 100 South, Provo, UT 84606
Trevor Eyre (Brother) 6981 N. Swift
St., Portland, OR 97203
Alicia Eyre (Sister) 175 West 3rd
South, Rexburg, ID 83440
Such petition shall be heard at
130 p.m. on 26 day of July, 2012,
or at such time as the court may
appoint, and objections may
be ﬁles by any person who can,
in such objections, show to the
court a good reason against such
a change of name.
WITNESS my hand and seal of
said District Court this 25 day of
May, 2012.
By DEIDRE PRICE
Clerk
DATED this 25th day of May,
2012.
BRADLEY B. B. POOLE
Pub. June 13, 20, 27 & July 4, 2012.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH
JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF
IDAHO. IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA
IN RE: Tamara Lynn Higginbotham

A hearing on the petition is
scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p.m.
on July 19, 2012 at the ADA
County Courthouse. Objections
may be ﬁled by any person who
can show the court a good reason
against the name change.
Date: May 25, 2012
CLERK OF THE DISTRICT
COURT
By: DEIRDRE PRICE
Deputy Clerk
Pub. June 13, 20, 27 & July 4, 2012.

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MIKE IS OUR HERO
Mike from Pianos’n’Things, you are
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kindness you showed while helping us with my grandma’s piano.
Jerimi & Travis.
OH DEAREST,
I am so grateful for every moment
that we had together. Every moment I am loving you. I believe
in you, I believe in us. Forgive
me for my faults and my hurries.
Someday when you are ready to
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excited to see your face again.

ENTERTAINMENT

Case No. CV NC 1208363
NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME
CHANGE (Adult)

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A Petition to change the name of
Tamara Lynn Higginbotham, now
residing in the City of Kuna, State
of Idaho, has been ﬁlled in the District Court in ADA County, Idaho.
The name will change to Tamara
Lynn Hoy-Higginbotham. The
reason for the change in name
is: to include my maiden name
along with my married name.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH
JUDSICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA
IN RE: HILLARY E. McLEAN.
Case No. CV NC 1209126
NOTICE OF HEARING
A Petition by Petitioner, Hillary
E. McLean, born on the 4th day
of September, 1981, in American
Fork, State of Utah now residing at 28740 Cherry Lane, #G208, Boise, Idaho is proposing a
change in name to the Petitioner
has been ﬁled in the above entitled court, the reason for this
change in name being that she
desires to return to her maiden
name:

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
It’s time for your right hand to
find out what your left hand has
been doing lately and vice versa.
They’ve been attending to their
separate agendas for a while,
and now it would be wise to have
them work together. As they get
reacquainted, a bit of friction
would be understandable. You
may have to serve as a mediator. Try to get them to play nicely
with each other for a while before
jumping in to the negotiations
about how best they can cooperate in the future. And be very firm
with them: no slapping or fighting
allowed.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Some relationships that you call
friendships may be little more
than useful connections or affiliations that enhance your power
and influence. There’s no shame
in that. But it’s also a smart
idea to make sure that at least
some of your alliances are rooted
primarily in pure affection. You
need to exchange energy with
people who don’t serve your
ambitions so much as they feed
your soul. The coming weeks will
be an excellent time to cultivate
friendships like that. Take good
care of those you have and be
alert for the possibility of starting
a new one.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do
you remember what you were
doing between July 2000 and
June 2001? Think back. Did
anything happen then that felt
like a wild jumpstart, or a series
of epiphanies, or a benevolent
form of shock therapy? Were
you forcibly dislodged from a rut
by an adversary who eventually
became an ally? Did you wake up
from a sleepy trance you didn’t
even know you had been in? I’m
guessing that at least some of
those experiences will be returning in the coming months but on
a higher octave this time.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Author Steven Covey describes
your “circle of concern” as
everything you’re concerned with
or worried about. Your “circle of
influence,” on the other hand,
is anything that’s within your
ability to change right now. For
example, you may have general
long-term questions or anxieties
about the future of your health.
That’s your circle of concern.
But your circle of influence contains specific actions you can
take to affect your health today,
like eating good food, getting
enough sleep, and doing exercise. What I’m seeing for you,
Cancerian, is that the coming
weeks will be an excellent time
to spend less time in your circle
of concern and more in your
circle of influence. Stop fantasizing about what may or may not
happen and simply take charge
of the details that will make a
difference.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a
wild zoo northwest of Seattle. You
can drive your car through acres
of land where large animals are
allowed to roam. When I took the
tour, I stopped my rented Dodge
Stratus by the side of the road to
get a better look at a humongous
buffalo with a humped back and
a long woolly beard. It lumbered
over to where I was parked and,
for the next five minutes, thoroughly licked my windshield with
its enormous purple tongue. My
head was just inches away from
its primal power, and yet I was
safe and relaxed and perfectly
amused. I wouldn’t be surprised
if you had a comparable experience sometime soon, Leo.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the
biblical book of Genesis, Jacob
had a dream of angels ascending and descending a ladder that
went up to heaven. I recommend
that you try to incubate a similar
dream, or else do some meditations in which you visualize that
scene. It would help prime your
psyche for one of this week’s
top assignments, which is to be
adaptable as you go back and
forth between very high places
and very low places. Heaven
and Earth need to be better connected. So do the faraway and
the close-at-hand, as well as the
ideal and the practical. And you’re
the right person for the job.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Thomas Edison said something
to the effect that a person who
is thoroughly satisfied is probably
a failure. I guess he meant that
if you’re not always pushing to
make your life better, you must
not have very high standards or
passionate goals. While I can see
the large grains of truth in that
theory, I don’t think it applies in
all cases—like for you right now.
During the upcoming period, it
will make sense for you to be
content with the state of your life
just as it is. To do so won’t make
you lazy and complacent. Just the
opposite, in fact: It will charge
your psychic batteries and create
a reservoir of motivational energy
for the second half of 2012.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Actress Annalynne McCord has
rebelled against what she calls
“Hollywood’s perfection requirement.” Lately, she has been
appearing in public without makeup on. She has even encouraged
paparazzi to snap photos. “I’m
not perfect,” she says, “and
that’s OK with me.” I nominate
her to be your role model in the
coming weeks, Scorpio. You will
be able to stir useful blessings
for yourself by being loyal to the
raw truth. You can gain power
by not hiding anything. (And yes,
I realize that statement is in
conflict with the core Scorpionic
philosophy.) Here’s my guarantee:
It’ll be fun to be free of unrealistic images and showy deceptions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21): Nineteenth-century Russian
novelist Ivan Turgenev once
called his fellow novelist Fyodor
Dostoyevsky a “pimple on the
face of literature.” But more than
100 years after that crude dismissal, Dostoyevsky is a much
more highly regarded and influential writer than Turgenev. Use
this as inspiration, Sagittarius, if
you have to deal with anyone’s
judgmental appraisals of you in
the coming days. Their opinions
will say more about them than
about you. Refresh your understanding of the phenomenon
of projection, in which people
superimpose their fantasies and
delusions on realities they don’t
see clearly.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Take a few deep breaths.
It’s important not to get overly
worked up about your recent
diversion from the Truth and the
Way. I mean, it’s not like you sold
heroin to high-school students or
dumped toxic waste into a mountain stream, right? It’s true that
you’ve incurred a minor karmic
debt that will ultimately have to
be repaid. And yes, you’ve been
reminded that you can’t allow
yourself to lower your standards
even slightly. But I doubt any of
it will matter in five years—especially if you atone now. So please
go ahead and give yourself a
spanking, make a definitive plan
to correct your error and start
cruising in the direction of the
next chapter of your life story.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Have you ever tried to drink from
a fire hose? The sheer amount
and force of the water shooting out the end makes it hard
to actually get any moisture in
your mouth, let alone enjoy the
process. On the other hand, it is
kind of entertaining and it does
provide a lot of material to tell
funny stories about later on. But
are those good enough reasons
to go ahead and do it? I say no.
That’s why I advise you, metaphorically speaking, to draw your
sustenance from a more contained flow in the coming week.
Cultivate a relationship with a
resource that gives you what you
really need.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
The coming week will be an
excellent time to declare your
independence from anything
that depresses, obsesses or
oppresses you. You will attract
help from unexpected sources
if you take that brave action.
At the same time, it’ll be a
per fect moment to declare your
interdependence with anything
that fires up your imagination,
stirs up smart hope or fills
you with a desire to create
masterpieces. Be adventurous
as you dream about blending
your energies with the ver y best
influences.